The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Short documentary on the shunters in the Darling Island, Sydney, Australia railyard. Filmed in 1977.

During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic...

Director Anna Broinowski explores how Pauline Hanson's speech in 1996 and the decades of debate that followed has influenced Australia today; the...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

What is it about Speedos? Well here Australian director Tim Hunter is on a mission to find the answer to the question of why so many gay men can't...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...