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- A portrait of the Mutton Bird industry in the Furneaux Group of islands in Australia's Bass Strait. Each year the 'Birders,' many of whom are descendants of Tasmanian aboriginals, harvest the fattening chicks of the migratory Mutton Bird for their down and oil.
- A man builds himself a house inside a Nicholson Street, East Balmain warehouse on a slipway on Sydney Harbour.
- This film documents the adventures of Malcolm Douglas and his travel companion Brett Nixon as they prove their small boat's capacity to reach New Guinea and their ability to adapt to the conditions on board their motorboat and to the cultural norms of the Bagwa peoples in New Guinea.
- Filmed on Stradbroke island - about its daily cycles - at a time when the film makers were shocked by the impact of tourism on it, but chose to keep it outside the film.
- The strange events surrounding the closure of a cinema in Melbourne and the sacking of one of its ushers.
- The advent of the talkies was not a boom period for Australian cinema, having been swamped by the American product and the failure of the local quota system.
- An unknown, tucked-away, medieval island is threatened by the advent of big business. A wealthy business man wants to develop the untouched island, which could then be ruined by the subsequent pollution.
- Australian extremes sports documentary featuring freestyle skiing, hang-gliding and surfing and made by Nat Young.
- Come on a journey back to the early days of surfing, to when beaches were uncrowded and surfboards were 20ft long. Witness the birth of professional surfing and the culture that grew around it.
- Grant Page and friends show you the stuntman's tricks of the trade via specially staged action sequences and archival footage from the Silent Era.
- The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss of identity, as the late Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri woman, takes us into the Aboriginal struggle for survival.
- The story of the life and work of Dr. Archie Kalokerinos. In nineteen years' practice as the only doctor in the tiny western New South Wales town of Collarenebri, he has formulated radical treatments to combat the alarming health problems of the district's Aboriginal population. This dramatised version of his life stars Henry Szeps, Robin Nevin and Peter Cummins.
- Guests arrive at an expensive private guest house on a remote island near Sydney. The guest house and weird activities, like theatre sports and orienteering, are run by a leery eccentric. One of the guests is a loner and the only way to fit in with the crowd is to participate in the questionable events. Some of the games border between comedy and horror - like the murder mystery.
- A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses himself more dearly in his letters and he is still quick tempered when they try to rekindle their relationship.
- Tells of the conflicts facing Al 'The Bomb' Dawson, a rising Aboriginal boxer preparing to make a challenge for the championship.
- Follows the life of a small circus touring outback Australia.
- When a young man becomes unemployed he encounters a series of people who question his values.
- Sons of Namatjira examines the relationship between a community of Aboriginal artists and the outside world.
- Sister, If You Only Knew takes as its theme the pressures of life experienced by Aboriginal women living in the city, and the effect that these pressures also have on their men and their children.
- The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne.
- An elderly woman who is treated as a simple-minded invalid, periodically escapes to sit by the river and listen to the races on her radio. There she befriends Charlie, a woman who has come to seek a new life in the country.
- A sensitive story of a middle aged man longing for his past love and its warm memories.