Frontline (1981)
(1981) [PG]

David Bradbury's powerful and unforgettable Academy Award nominated masterpiece, Frontline, focuses on the horror and tragedy of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of Australian war correspondant Neil Davis.

Frontline forces us to remember the most horrific side of a war that...  More

Freakouts And Flashbacks
(1975) [M]

'An education in hallucination'. In the midst of the turbulent late 60s, only one thing was clear, and that was that the enemy were rampaging hippies and acid heads. This carefully culled collection of shorts, all produced during the height of LSD hysteria, hilariously reveal extreme paranoia...  More

Intervista
(1987) [M]

Fellini's movie combines the film-within-a-film. A playful recollection of previous works and an eerie conflating of the past and present in this surreal and imaginative distillation of a man's life and work. As Fellini prepares to adapt Kafka's Amerika, his every move and gesture is captured by...  More

The Baby Boomers Picture Show
(1990) [PG]

As seen on ABC TV's 'The Baby Boomers Picture Show'. Re-live the magic of your childhood. Swing on a hills hoist, hear Jason and the Argonauts on the radio, taste the warm school milk, smell the chook roasting on Christmas Day and remember the excitement of Saturday arvo pictures. This video...  More

Coral Sea Dreaming
(1999) [E]

Sit back, relax and voyage into the spectacular world of the Great Barrier Reef. Discover crystal-clear images, cool Dolby Digital music and over 300 creatures in their natural habitat. This DVD contains optional sub-titles to identify each creature, screensaver for your PC, 30 bonus...  More

The Republic Pictures Story
(1991) [G]

A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, directors, stuntmen, etc.  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 1: The 1930s
(1993) [G]

Part-one in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 2: The 1940s
(1993) [G]

Part-two in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 3: The 1950s
(1993) [G]

Part-three in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 4: The 1960s
(1993) [G]

Part-four in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

From Mao To Mozart
(1981) [G]

Isaac Stern's cultural tour of China is seen, with the master violinist performing and mentoring young Chinese musicians. He visits rehearsals of the Peking Opera, meeting with their musicians who use traditional Chinese instruments, and also visits a sports academy and other venues. The...  More

The Famine Within
(1990) [G]

Women's bodies and the cultural ideal. THE FAMINE WITHIN is a Canadian feature-length documentary film about the contemporary obsession with body size and shape. Under the coercive powers of consumerism and the mass media, women have come to view their bodies as marketable objects and to judge...  More

Simone De Beauvoir
(1978) [G]

Documentary on French author Simone De Beauvoir. Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and their friends discuss the events and involvements that shaped her life and opinions - from the Spanish Civil War to the Paris riots of 1968. Her lucid, perceptive observations on the people and events of the...  More

Berkeley In The Sixties
(1990) [PG]

The 1960's alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War.  More

The Great Chase
(1963) [G]

There were many virtues to the best filmmaking of the silent era, but one achievement remains unchallenged, even at the other end of the century - the chase sequence. The Great Chase is all about the finest chases of the silent era, as handled by D.W. Griffith, Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks...  More

Mondo Cane
(1962) [R]

This shockumentary caused a stir when it was released in 1962 -- no one had seen anything quite like it before. But audiences need not have worried, this low-brow, disconnected series of clips on "savages" and "barbarians" (usually dark-skinned) who pierce their skin or their noses and do not...  More

Mondo Cane 2
(1964) [R]

Despite its exploitive nature, the 1963 Italian "shockumentary" Mondo Cane yielded a few images of great beauty while dredging through the more extreme and outrageous eccentricities of the world. It also produced the hit song "More". Mondo Cane Part 2 offers little more but sensationalism; even...  More

Blast 'em
(1992) [M]

Meeting Madonna... Ambushing Michael J. Fox... Screaming at Robert De Niro... 'Blast 'em' is a humourous look at life as a paparazzo - a professional celebrity photographer. Presented by Victor Malafronte.  More

Gimme Shelter
(1970) [M]

In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California, east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. About 300,000 people came, and the organizers put Hell's Angels in charge of security around the stage. Armed with pool...  More

The Infinity Series: Volume 1 of 2 (2 tape set)
(1999) [G]

Part 1 of 4: 'The Solar System'. Moving pictures and photographs from NASA and leading observatories, plus exciting animation, create this fascinating and striking video. Made by the same creative team that produced the official Apollo Mission Films for NASA.

Part 2 of 4: 'Deep Space,...  More

The Infinity Series: Volume 2 of 2 (2 tape set)
(1999) [G]

Part 3 of 4: 'The Light Beyond Light & Life'. The Stygian depths of space - no shining stars, no titanic illuminations of galaxies - seemingly empty volumes which contain at least 90% of all the material in the universe - in interstellar and intergalactic space the human fantasy of invisibility...  More

Dreamings: The Art Of Aboriginal Australia
(1988) [G]

DREAMINGS is a journey to the scarred heartlands and lush mangroves to see traditional Aboriginal artists at work. This film reveals a culture which is among the most ancient known, and explores the timeless value of the oldest continuous art tradition in the world.  More

Brambuk: A Journey Through Time
(1994) [E]

Aboriginal people have a long association with the Grampians. There are many shelters in the park that display ancient artwork and some are accessible to visitors. Visit Brambuk the National Park & Cultural Centre, adjacent to the National Parks Visitor Centre, in Halls Gap to learn more about...  More

The Joys Of The Women
(1992) [G]

A moving, humorous and sometimes quirky music documentary about a group of larger-than-life characters who win fans wherever they go. The film focuses on a number of members of the Fremantle Women's Choir "The Joys of the Women", who have defied sex role conventions and cultural constraints to...  More

A Brief History Of Time
(1992) [G]

Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together  More

Bruce Lee: The Curse Of The Dragon
(1993) [M]

A tribute to the martial arts screen star Bruce Lee, narrated by George Takei. Includes film clips from 'Enter The Dragon.'  More

Atlantis
(1993) [G]

Atlantis is director Luc Besson's awe-inspiring celebration of the beauty of the world beneath the sea, expanding upon the themes touched on in his huge hit The Big Blue. Combining stunning underwater cinematography and a hypnotic score by Eric Serra, Besson's singular vision defies dialogue or...  More

Meetings With Remarkable Men
(1979) [G]

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Beginning with his childhood, the movie follows his journeys through Central Asia as he discovers new levels of spirituality through music, dance and near-encounters with death.  More

The Quince Tree Sun (Dream of Light)
(1992) [G]

A film about the artistic process in every sense of the phrase, Spanish director Victor Erice's El Sol del Mebrillo (The Quince Tree Sun) loosely documents the efforts of artist Antonio Lopez to paint the titular foliage in his backyard. Lopez agonizes over just how to capture the light falling...  More

Crystal Voyager
(1972) [G]

From the producer of Rabbit Proof Fence and Morning Of The Earth comes one of the most legendary surf films ever made. Crystal Voyager has a cult following above and beyond all other surf films. George Greenough, surfer extra-ordinary, takes his camera and you on a vibrant trip into the rolling,...  More