Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films, to the controversy of "The Story of the Kelly Gang" and the success of "The Sentimental Bloke".

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the wor...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...

From the ashes of Australia’s devastating bushfires, wildlife survivors begin their long journeys to...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

There's a mysterious predator lurking in the depths of Australia's wild Southern Ocean, a beast that...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historic...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequen...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

These two views were taken during the celebrations given in 1896 on the occasion of the millennium o...
A documentary short film showing the flying of an airplane by the famous French pilot Chevillard.

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme ca...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during hi...