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- Australian born film maker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films.
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Over the course of 48 hours, three stories intertwine: Joe is looking for drugs; Leilane has run away from home, and Paul is unemployed and angry.
- A dramatised documentary showing 48 hours in the lives of members of the Aboriginal bands, No Fixed Address and Us Mob, including the racism, hostility and harassment they receive.
- Docu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.
- Australian extremes sports documentary featuring freestyle skiing, hang-gliding and surfing and made by Nat Young.
- In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities response.
- GOOD AFTERNOON is a unique dual-screen documentary of the Aquarius Arts Festival of 1971, an 8 day 'happening' at the Australian National University, which featured arts, music and dance, capturing the vibe of flower-powered chaos through the organisers, the participants and the protests.
- One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.
- When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough money to get the car repaired.
- The relationship between a young man, Paul, and a confident executive, Grant, about which his soon-to-be-wife Joy knows nothing, in Auckland's gay scene in 1980, when homosexuality was illegal.
- Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Covers the the Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, the Christopher Boyce spy trial, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign territories and its former agent Victor Marchetti as well as government secrecy, security, intelligence, foreign affairs and policy.
- A documentary shedding light on Morant the drover, horse-breaker, bush poet and rebel, while also detailing the Boer War and the court-martial of Morant, Peter Handcock and George Ramsdale Witton.
- E. F. Schumacher visits various sites in Australia; untouched forests, rivers, waterfalls and other natural wonders describing their beauty and vital contributions to the Austalian subcontinent and then visits sites of forest destruction and logging operations and asks the pertinent question: Isn't there another way to utilize nature's resources, without destroying them in the process?. He has already given many examples of better ways in his famous book: "Small Is Beautiful".
- Short documentary feature examining the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, South Australia. Performances that are featured include original archival footage of the State Theatre Company of South Australia performing Patrick White's "Signal Driver"; the Sydney Theatre Company' s production of David Hare's "A Map of the World"; Playbox Production's performance of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child"; Pina Bausch's Kontakthof Wuppertaler Tanztaler; Graeme Koehne's "Sinfonietta" by the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra; and a live performance by cabaret act Circus Oz.
- This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents into an equally uncommunicative relationship with a former teacher who aspires to be a poet. Cathy's self-destructive behavior is presented as a legacy of her (British) family and past.
- An Anzac Day stunt intended as a political statement is viewed as an act of terrorism, forcing Ray Unit further underground, fleeing to his childhood home on the other side of Australia. An Orwellian tale of terrorism, fear, paranoia and politics.
- How the Australian mining industry affects workers health, the environment and Aboriginal culture, produces unemployment and sends profits overseas, told from many different perspectives.
- A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.
- A depiction of the women involved in the peace movement contrasts greatly with media portraits of the time, and the subsequent collective memory.
- Based on the True Story about the 'Care & Rehabilitation situation of the residents of 'Leumeah'in Australia and the case put forward and action that the residents took towards the media amongst other things to get attention brought to their cause in 1973.
- A single-frame camera exploration of the filmmaker's home, inside and out, including its inhabitants and pets.
- The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was the single most important action in the struggle for land rights in Australia. This rare historical record is the only film shot from inside the heart of the protest.
- In this angry newsreel compilation of injustice against the oppressed, there occurs, without any particular preparation, a most shocking documentary sequence: the meticulously detailed, on-camera killing of a captured prisoner - possibly in the course of the Congo Crisis - who, cringing on the ground, has just been promised life. Since the outcome is unknown to either him or us, we share - in the comfort of a movie theater - his unbearable dread, and attempt to believe, as does he, the promises and taunts of his captors. A tiny part of our humanity, perhaps, dies with this unknown man - one nameless victim out of thousands dying somewhere at any given moment.
- A failing and ageing vaudeville pageant decide to hire a nefarious strip-tease act from Sydney. The stripper (Gretel Pinninger) enlivens the small but loyal elderly audience.
- A comprehensive insight into the inspiring mass eco-blockade in Australia's Terania Creek Forest in 1979. Conservationists' efforts to save this primeval forest from deforestation.
- A look at society's response to ageing, particularly with regard to older women.
- Details the political complications of the deliberate degradation of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo: poverty, eviction, deterioration and gentrification.