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In 1988 when the Gubbas (white Australians) celebrated 200 years of settlement, the Koories (Aboriginal Australians) observed a year of protest and mourning. RADIO REDFERN is a portrait of Sydney's Aboriginal radio station in 1988 combining the intensity of the Aboriginal protest with the warmth and humour which form the essence of Radio Redfern broadcasts.
THE ACTOR AND THE PRESIDENT traces the lives of two extraordinary Sri Lankan individuals: screen idol Vijaya Kumaratunga and his wife Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. Tragically the shared dream of these two young peacemakers was extinguished in February 1988 when Vijaya was cruelly gunned down outside their home. An intimate portrait of people playing out their lives on a wider stage - a reminder that the victims of war and political violence are real people, who despite their public stature share the fears and emotions that touch us all. As the current President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga continues to fight for solutions to her country's ethnic conflict - a war that the world would rather forget.
The story of a father who is suffering from Alzheimer's and his three estranged sons who reluctantly draw together to find institutional care for him. The father wrestles with the demons of the past as buried memories of World War II percolate disturbingly through the mundane reality of his daily care. Woven through this are the stories of the sons as they struggle to come to terms with the roles they have played as brothers, sons and men.
AFTERSHOCKS tells of the survivors of the 1989 earthquake that devastated the Newcastle Workers Club. They tell their personal stories of tragedy, terror, heroism and healing.
AUSTRALIANS AT WAR examines the effects of war on the lives of Australians and how this nation has been shaped by those experiences.
A post-war story of love, marriage and friendship begun during the occupation of Japan and set in Victoria during the 1950s and 1960s.
Following the death of her mother, Katrina Stanton leaves Australia in search of her father. She meets Arkie Regan who talks his way into her lonely life. A brief and romantic sojourn in Goa turns into an extended nightmare when a Thailand stopover reveals a quantity of heroin in Katrina's luggage. Regan vanishes and Katrina is facing execution if she is found guilty of drug trafficking. Only her elusive father, Hal Stanton, can save her.
Two old friends, Bob Ellis the political writer and Les Murray, Australia's foremost poet, go on a journey of their 40-year friendship.
BEDEVIL is a trilogy of ghost stories that follows characters pestered by visions - real, remembered and imagined. These contemporary tales travel from the sparseness of the outback, through the murky, rotting swamps of the islands, to the Brisbane docks in a stylish vision from writer/director Tracey Moffatt.
Blessed is a film about mothers and children, about love and beauty, about being lost and finding your way home.
An action-packed adventure set amongst the people involved in the hunt for the world's toughest and most capricious fish harvest, the Southern 'Blue Fin' Tuna.
A young man growing up in the 60s has a wealthy background, is clever, good-looking and a sportsman. However, he has emotional problems as he struggles to come to terms with his mother, his girlfriend, his peers and himself.
A young woman enlists her family's help in bringing sexual harassment charges against her former boss. But is she lying?
CARELESS LOVE is set in the aftermath of the world financial crisis when many have lost their jobs and thousands their homes. Linh, a Vietnamese-Australian university student from a small country town, starts work as an escort after her father loses his job in the building industry and is in danger of losing the family home. She believes she can separate her normal life from her work. When her carefully partitioned worlds threaten to collide, Linh's life and fictions become ever more tenuous.
The Australian poet John Forbes, 1951-97, is remembered by friend and fellow poet Alan Warne.
In 1944 1100 Japanese POWs, based in Cowra, charged over a barbed wire fence and into the firing line of Australian guards. 230 prisoners were killed and the massacre was kept secret for 30 years.
We are in a high tech video editing suite where we hear the disconnected voices of an unseen director and editor as they edit footage of beggars in an Asian country. The material stops and starts and whirls past us as we hear their dispassionate, technical conversation. We experience their growing involvement as they are drawn into the material until we cross with them in a dreaming of the footage. The beggars are blind. We cross from their physicality to a sense of their humble grace. The editors fade away. We have crossed - from west to east, from technology to humanity from the material to the spiritual.
A fictional story about three generations of one of Australia's wealthiest rural empires.
Based on the true story of Emma Eliza Coe, an American-Samoan woman who set up a huge trading empire in the South Pacific last century.
The story of the nine years spent in Australia by the conductor, composer Sir Eugene Goossens and his tragic involvement with the witch of Kings Cross Rosaleen Norton. A story of music, drugs, lies, betrayal, conspiracy and magic.
A FINE BODY OF GENTLEMAN tells the story of the three-year odyssey of a group of black cricketers from rural Victoria, and the white men who trained them. In 1868, during their tour of the UK, these men were to become Australia's first ever international cricket touring team.
A sequel to THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE. Danny's view of the world is further shaped by his experiences and relationships while at boarding school.
When 12-year-old Sean becomes seriously ill, his father decides that his every wish will be granted. His wishes seem quite simple - a dog of his own, to see his mother and a visit to the fairground. His father can grant three wishes, but what about the fourth?
An insurance investigator uses dice as a deadly weapon in an ever-changing series of games, pranks and tortures, gleefully blackmailing and robbing his victims of everything they own. Then...
A dramatised documentary on the life of Francis James, a man who had been a controversial theologian, who had been accused of being a spy, a communist, an arch conservationist and an eccentric with a sharp wit.
The misadventures of two likeable, misfit garbos who lose their mother-in-law, a large garbage truck, a beautiful woman and the respect of their peers. The two also have an infatuation with the great Greta Garbo, and with true heroism clean up their neighbourhood and make it a finer place to place their bins.
A comedy drama about a young lawyer who finds his conscience in a most unlikely place - a law firm.
Three sisters are reunited at their seaside family home by the disappearance of their father. Based on the award-winning Australian play by Hannie Rayson.
Robert, a successful novelist with writer's block, is kicked out by his wife who is tired of his laziness.
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.
This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. It examines the complex issues the conflict raised, introduces the major players in the dispute and portrays a fascinating era of Australian history rarely seen on screen.
Seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, THE LAST CROP follows the adventures of a fatherless family whose linchpin is an ingenious mother. The mother is a cleaning lady in luxury apartments. She devises highly creative schemes to turn the burden of her dead father's barren farm, which she inherits, into her fortune.
The story of five young soldiers who died on the Western Front 90 years ago, and have only just been found, reveals the reality behind life in the trenches in the war to end all wars. Forensic science reveals their identities and archaeology reveals their world.
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of Western Australia. While most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination escape arrest and begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia. Pursued by an army reservist unit, our three heroes wander deeper into the desert, desperately searching for a Western-style democracy amongst the stones of the Pilbara. A film about distance, difference and dud maps.
The story of a racing crew of four young men who stumble across a stolen car racket. In an action-packed climax, the team raids the headquarters of the cartel.
Director Geoff Burton establishes a remarkable intimacy with his subjects in this extremely moving documentary looking at the work of Liverpool Hospital's Intensive Care Unit. The film focuses on one patient: Mohammad Hossain.
Six action-packed telemovies featuring fantasy, fun, mystery, historical drama and suspense.
When the young Ken Elkin, an over-sexed and hyperactive youth with a taste for personal melodrama, first encounters the end of the world, it is at the annual Seventh Day Adventist Camp in 1956. But the world doesn't end. Arriving in Sydney in 1962 to attend University, Elkin encounters the end of the world for a second time, but the much anticipated apocalypse is once again postponed.
A computer-literate dog called PC flees into the arms of a lonely 13-year-old boy, Zac, after witnessing his master's murder. The two then set about unravelling the mystery of his death and finding treasure that has been hidden.
Seven telemovies, each one devoted to a deadly sin: greed; envy; sloth; wrath; pride; gluttony; and, of course, lust.
Loosely based on the experiences of writers Richard Neville and Julie Clarke during their time in Asia writing and researching their book 'The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj'.
Scandalised by a provocative series of paintings in the early 1930s by the controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay, the Anglican Church sends a young clergyman, Anthony Campion, and his wife Estella, who have just arrived from England, to take up a new parish in the countryside west of Sydney. Stopping en route at Lindsay's house in the Blue Mountains, Campion tries to persuade him to withdraw an etching from a coming international exhibition. Three young models, Sheela, Prue and Giddy, are currently staying on the property, and under their sensual influence, Estella feels increasingly estranged from her husband as he tries vainly to prevail on Lindsay to withdraw the offending picture from the exhibition. Like Giddy, Estella is beguiled by a tall, striking-looking man who lives in the bush nearby. Her dreams intensify, and a crisis is reached which threatens her self respect and her marriage.
A young boy befriends an Aboriginal man and a pelican. One day he is forced to choose between his beloved companions and the often cruel outside world. Based on a novel by Colin Thiele.
The story of the first man in the world to receive compensation for being exposed to defoliants in the Vietnam War. The film gives insight into the characters within a family and how they deal with the problem.
Jeff and his Dad are an odd couple of lonely hearts. One an open-hearted widower, the other a young bachelor of a different persuasion. Both men need some romance in their otherwise boring lives and decide to look for new ways to find it. Dad enrols in a computer dating service to find his lady love. Son Jeff, sick of one night stands and noisy gay bars, wants a real commitment. But when he finds his Mr Right, what will Dad have to say!
The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.
A woman encounters time travellers from the 24th century in Central Australia.
The Goddards are an ordinary Australian family affected by the Vietnam war. The father's career is in jeopardy because of his views, the son is conscripted, only to be ignored on his return, the daughter becomes an activist and the mother begins to question her role in the family.
Based on a Mills and Boon novel set in 1946, it tells of a young Englishwoman, Diana Veness who has recently been jilted. She takes on the job of teacher to three children who are being brought up by their uncle, Timber Marlow. Diana's search for a new life is set against a spectacular background of the Australian countryside.
Fifteen-year-old Danny, son of a publican in a small country town, is in love from a distance with 16-year-old Freya. Though once playmates, the difference in their ages has become unbridgeable and Danny must watch helplessly as Freya's relationship with the school fullback and delinquent blooms. Then Danny discovers why the town's menfolk have so strange an attitude to Freya.
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