Australia Movies

This film looks at Nauru in 1962 when it had the highest per-capita income in the world but when the depletion of the country's phosphate resources wa...

A group of die-hard Australian Elvis fans on a pilgrimage to Memphis in the 20th year of the 'King's' death. A film about journeys, relationships and...

“Sydney. Another symphony of the city...inspired by the hectic, rollercoaster times. Buildings were going up left right and centre...‘Money Makes the...

This cute little short was made for the Australian Broadcasting commission, with animation by the small Rowl Greenhalgh productions.

Competitive ballroom dancing in Melbourne in the 1980s.

The film illustrates the fact that Australia's Newcastle, like its British counterpart, has developed into a large city but still retains its essentia...

Produced by The National Film Board 1945. Directed by Maslyn Williams. When this film was made, Canberra was one of the world's youngest planned citie...

At the request of a dying Tiwi man and his family on Melville Island, this film was made of the pukumani (bereavement) ceremony to follow his death. T...

Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.

Live Between Evil is a departure from Shead's experimental style and aims at realistic recreation of bourgeois life on Sydney's Upper North Shore.

A three colour separation study filmed at Pearl Beach, which examines the same scene of Amethyst Avenue during the progression of a winter, then a sum...

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression vie...

A short melodrama that explores the human psyche of a 16-year old male student, when he is raped by his 59-year old male teacher.

Colin Jones is of Aboriginal, Polynesian and English decent. The Aboriginal side of his family are from the Kalkadoon and Nunuckle tribal groups. His...

The film Harry Hooton is conceived as a huge energy field combining the energy of light and colour, movement, editing and sound — a dense, vibrating,...

An extraordinarily insightful and intimate exploration of the social and cultural landscape of India's most elite boys' boarding school. In following...

An in depth and wide-ranging survey of the culture, tradition, rites and practices of voodoo in Haiti. Modern choreography influenced by voodoo tradit...

A 1910 bushranger film about Captain Moonlite, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It was also known as Captain Moonlite.