Australia Movies

Surf documentary

In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a privately-...

Living memories is a community documentary project: the result of a unique collaboration between a group of older women from Melbourne's Jewish commun...

The Queen's maiden visit to Australia in 1954 marked the end of one era and the dawn of another. It was post-depression, post WWII, and pre TV, and Au...

Rowland S. Howard, the Primitive Calculators, Ollie Olsen, Phillip Brophy and many others proffer their recollections and air their animosities in a t...

Exploring the lives of everyday people who through life encounter the special gifts they have, or at least believe they have.

Australian wrestling was once a television obsession where the best in the world would clash. Now travel half way around the world with an Aussie wres...

She blames technology. He blames the plumber. And therapy has never been so revealing...

An animated government/science style public service film, circa 1981, for surviving life in Australia after Nuclear War.

Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about fatherhood.

Artist/poet/novelist/singer Pip Proud was being feted in the media as an underground superstar at the time this experimental documentary was made. The...

This assembly of home-movie footage, shot between 1961 and 1966, was made by artist and filmmaker Shead. Homegrown pop artist Martin Sharp and writer...

Just before Easter 2001, a semi-trailer loaded with 40,000 bottles of beer crashed into the Tweed River on the out skirts of the northern New South Wa...

Every month, an estimated 200,000 Australians deliberately hurt themselves. They cut, scratch, burn and sometimes even break bones. It's called self-h...

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

The 'Little Black Book' is now forgotten. before the mid 60s it meant having some human rights, being able to raise children in safely and interact wi...

A woman grieves for her missing son. A deceased young man wants to be found. These lives converge in The Dead Speak Back as we are taken on a surreal...

This film contains three short stories about life in Australia in the 1950's.