Young @ Heart
(2007) [PG]

Get ready to rock with the most entertaining Golden Oldies you'll ever meet, a fun loving senior citizens' choir called Young @ Heart - average age 81. Celebrating the unbreakable bonds of friendship and the life-affirming power of music, they prepare to perform a range of tunes from James Brown...  More

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
(2007)

Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff's transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a...  More

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) [G]

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and...  More

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
(2001) [MA]

The first ever Inuit film to receive a theatrical release, Atanarjuat is a truly epic piece of storytelling and a wonderfully lyrical cinematic experience. The film is a recreation of an ancient Inuit legend of Atanarjuat - a classic quest story set in the Arctic at the dawn of the first...  More

The Grocer's Son
(2007) [M]

It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed - driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants....  More

Sex and the City: The Movie (2 disc set)
(2008) [MA]

Strap on your Manolos and grab a cupcake and a Cosmopolitan! Those four fabulous New Yorkers – Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte – are back!

Four years after the hit series ended, our favourite femmes fashionables continue to juggle jobs, friendships and relationships while...  More

The Finished People
(2003) [MA]

The lives of three young men in their late teens and early twenties, all living desperate lives on the streets of Cabramatta, Sydney: Tommy (Jason McCormack) is a longtime heroin addict who's once again trying to reform himself and get a job, with the help of his friend Sara (Sarah Vongmany). Van...  More

Who Killed the Electric Car
(2006) [PG]

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. This documentary investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role...  More

The Party's Over
(2001) [M]

Philip Seymour Hoffman hosts this compelling exploration of the state of democracy in America. The Party's Over chronicles the scandalous 2000 Presidential Elections and journeys deep into the belly of the beast that is American politics.  More

Letters to Ali
(2004) [PG]

Clara Law's LETTERS TO ALI is at once a personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia’s growing public concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in Australian detention centres. The documentary chronicles one exceptional ‘average’ Australian family the...  More

My Flesh and Blood
(2004) [M]

MY FLESH AND BLOOD documents one year in the life of divorced, 53-year-old Fairfield, California mother Susan Tom and her 11 adopted children--ten of which are physically or mentally disabled. After a 13-year marriage that produced two children of her own and her first adopted child, she...  More

7 Up & 14 Up (aka Seven Up! & Seven Plus Seven )
(1970) [G]

Originally shown as part of the World In Action television series, 7 Up broke new ground in British documentary filmmaking when it aired in 1964. Seen as a snapshot of the nation's future, a group of 7-year-old children, all from different walk of life, were asked about their attitudes towards...  More

The Corporation (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [PG]

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But...  More

Blue Planet (Imax, 1990)
(1990) [G]

Blue Planet reveals the Earth to us as only few people have ever seen it: from space. Orbiting 200 miles above Earth's surface, we can see familiar landforms, the majestic Himalayas, giant Namib desert sand dunes, jewel-like Caribbean islands. From this unique vantage point we see how natural...  More

Wild Rhapsody
(1996) [E]

From the award winning ABC Natural History Unit comes Wild Rhapsody, a delightful musical journey through the Australian region. Share in the delights of the playful young animals, experience their daily struggles, immerse yourself in the joy of loving, the pleasures of eating and the fun of...  More

Ambient Waterfalls
(2000) [G]

Sit back relax and enjoy the unique visual and audio experience of the magnificent waterfalls of far North Queensland, Australia. A dreamlike panorama of slow moving waterfalls in the wet tropics and Atherton Tablelands, Kuranda and spectacular Mossman Gorge. Waterfalls in Cairns Region. The...  More

Man With A Movie Camera
(1929) [G]

Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of...  More

The Best Of Out
(1989) [M]

The TV series 'Out on Tuesday' won the Audience Award at the 1989 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.  More

Ra: The Path Of The Sun God
(1990) [G]

The Egyptian genesis - the story of Osiris and Isis and their battle with their evil brother Set. The battle symbolises the ongoing conflict between the universal forces of creation and destruction. This trilogy is interesting technically, as it shows a virtuosity of rostrum technique,...  More

Great Cities Of Europe
[G]

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The Accidental Tourist
(1988) [PG]

A bitter-sweet but ultimately life affirming, tragi-comedy from William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and director Lawrence Kasdan. Macon Leary (William Hurt), is the creator of The Accidental Tourist – a travel guide for businessmen who would rather stay at home. His marriage to Sarah (Kathleen...  More

Sacred Sex
(1993) [R]

The art of Tantric sex is explored in this excellently produced video by Niayso Christine Carter. Tantric sex teaches how to extend the act of sex and to channel strong orgasmic energies throughout the entire body rather than just concentrating them on the genital areas. Six Tantrikas...  More

Cyberpunk
(1990) [M]

This documentary takes us all the way back to 1990, when the information highway was being blazed by cyberpunks, defined herein as "computer cowboys hacking a perilous post-human lifestyle on new technological frontiers." The front man for the movement is William Gibson, the award-winning author...  More

The Good Woman Of Bangkok (2 disc set)
(1991) [MA]

This film is styled as a documentary, and concerns the world of Thai prostitution.

After the dissolution of his marriage, an Australian filmmaker becomes emotionally involved with a young female prostitute who works in the Patpong red light district of Bangkok.

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35 Up
(1991) [G]

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.  More

Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex
(1992) [R]

Prepared with Britain's leading HIV/AIDS charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust, this video clearly shows the practicalities - and the pleasures - of safer sex, taking you on an erotic journey through the numerous ways you can make the most out of your sex life without risking HIV. We should...  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 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

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