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A short documentary about the band.

A film that explores the relationship between man and technology...told from the perspective of a phone.

HongAFI nominated director, Charlie Hill-Smith’s first documentary, is a telling insight into the complexities that face modern China. In 1997 the most free market city of earth was consumed by the last great communist state, but who is China? What is China? Travel from Hong Kong to Beijing to Tibet to grab a warts and all snap shot of the Middle Kingdom as it rises to become the great power of the twenty first century.

The inside story of the 2010 AFL Grand Final.

From the age of 10, Michael Isaachsen has had a love of all things printing. At 85, he looks back on his story – the story of a life spent focused on his extraordinary goal: to create Melbourne’s (and maybe the world’s) largest Museum of Print. Meanwhile, as Michael’s son sifts through what is left of his father’s once-vast collection and a director stages a museum displaying the objects from Michael’s life, questions of perspective, sacrifice, failure and the marks we leave behind are explored.

Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club",  which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations, including Australia. A knock on the door and an earnest offer to share their teachings is the only interaction most people will have with this god-fearing organisation. Few would know the extreme nature of their beliefs. The conduct of the religious group came under scrutiny in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

It's based on the events of 6 April 1966, where, in the Melbourne suburb of Westall, 200 students, staff and local residents watched as a strange object hovered overhead for several minutes, landed briefly, then lifted off and vanished. Witnesses described it as low flying, silver-grey and shiny, shaped like a ‘cup turned upside down on a saucer’ and accompanied by five light aircraft. A mass of excited students surged out of school and ran after the object. Many reported seeing a circle of flattened grass on the ground where it had landed. One said she touched it as it took off. Others observed men in uniforms cordoning off the ‘landing site’ and removing soil samples by the truckload. Some say they saw uniformed men torch the area a few hours later. The incident was reported on the news on television that night and in the local newspapers.

Gore Street, Fitzroy traces the history of Gore Street, in Fitzroy, Melbourne’s oldest suburb. Through a series of interviews with longstanding residents, filmmaker Zoe Coldham, who grew up on Gore Street, paints a picture of the street and reflects on a community that has transformed through waves of gentrification.

The internal symphony of the feminine mind navigating a night out - where fear and joy exist side by side.

A look into the past of the filmmakers' Czechoslovakia-born mother, who committed suicide.

In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.

After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.

The pull of ancestry as it shifts into the present, communication across generations, heritage as it delivers you to the future, viral cooking show videos, honouring those you love, familial creativity and collaboration, moving with the geopolitical tides across Asia, cooking as a useful and caring act.

In 1989, the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. It remains closed to this day. In response, a blockade was imposed around the island. From scratch, the Bougainvilleans built their own schools, they revived their traditional bush medicines, they used solar and hydro power to generate electricity, but the most fascinating invention was the use of fermented coconut oil as a substitute for fuel. "An Evergreen Island" is a story of courage, survival and persistence - of inventiveness, imagination and creativity on a little-known Pacific island.

A look behind the scenes of Razorback (1984).

A dancer enters the liminal spaces between history and emotion to retell the story of her ancestral Māori meeting house Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito.

Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.

You've got to be tough to survive the AFL. These are the hart nuts that put their body on the line for the sake of their team. The players that put their heads over the ball no matter the consequence. The players who run back with the flight with no regard for the hit that always comes. These are the players we love to watch week after week. 'Only The Courageous' showcases the strength and skills of the modern AFL player in the 21st century.

Examines the story of the murder of Tara Brown, a horrific case of domestic violence that shocked Australia.

Lee is a cleaner. Whenever Death went away, she comes in to remove what is left over - the first step towards cleaning bad memories.

Dani performs onstage as Dani Boi, a non-binary 'dragtivist' with a mission to fight back against oppressive gender norms.

One man’s upbringing in Dunedin, New Zealand. Following his early life, bullying, and his own advice for the current generation. Unfiltered.

Colin Jones is of Aboriginal, Polynesian and English decent. The Aboriginal side of his family are from the Kalkadoon and Nunuckle tribal groups. His grandfather taught him about Aboriginal traditions and the art of his people. Colin is now a noted Artist. At present Colin is studying for his Masters Degree in Humanities. Much of the history that he talks about in this video comes from his own studies and research, conducted over many years. Colin's reason for making this video is to explain from an Aboriginal point of view based on his historical data, what has happened to his people over the past two hundred years since the white man arrive in Australia.

Daughter-cum-documentary filmmaker, Ava Grimshaw-Hall, embarks on a poignant journey to connect with her sperm donor father John, as he battles an aggressive cancer. Together, they explore their unique bond, seeking understanding and closure amidst life’s uncertainties.

A young mother flees her country in the midst of a revolution, revealing to her daughter a history of abandonment that crosses three continents and four generations.

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

The story of how an Australian and international community of blacksmiths, welders, artists and volunteers responded to the devastating Black Saturday bush-fires by creating perhaps the nation's most ambitious public artwork and memorial – The Blacksmith's Tree, a three tonne, 9.8-meter tall stainless steel and copper gum tree.

It's the Miss First Nations competition! Beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to reveal a fun, fabulous and sometimes fearful place. A sassy, intimate portrait of what it means to be an Indigenous Drag Queen today.

A globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age - no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each speaking in their own words and revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that animate their lives. It is simultaneously an epic survey of the similarities and distinctions between cultures and an intimate account of these young personalities finding their way in the world today.

Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in this area including people with Greek, Lebanese, Portuguese and Vietnamese backgrounds.

This daring documentary explores the hipster experience and the baggage that it comes with in modern society.

This project has captured and celebrated the personal journeys and experiences of 16 people with a connection to the Gay and Lesbian Singers of WA. In doing so it has shown how enriching, supportive and often indispensable the choir has been for those who are a part of it. The project culminated in the exhibition of photography and written stories of the individuals involved, together with the first air of our short documentary, Singing For Our True Heart, produced, co-written and co-directed by Know Your Nation. The film has gone on to appear in independent film festivals.

Dancer Jozsef Trefeli, named after his grandfather, whom he did not have the chance to meet, embarks on a deeply personal journey. His father, a Hungarian immigrant, fled to Australia in 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution. Attracted by the echoes of his heritage, Jozef strives to reconnect with the language and culture of his ancestors. Inspired by his father's voice and his cherished memories, he travels to the land of his ancestors, discovering a legacy intertwined with history and memory.

The life of Ruby Langford Ginibi is a story of triumph against the odds. She was born on a mission station, and her mother left the family when Langford was six years old. At the age of 16 she embarked on the first of four tumultuous relationships and went on to raise nine children, working as a fencer, cleaner and machinist. Three of her children died, and one son has spent almost half his life in correctional institutions. In 1984, after shaking off an alcohol addiction, Langford wrote her autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town, which won the 1988 Human Rights Literary Award.

Artists like Robert Smithson, Donald Judd and Peter Hutchinson borrowed liberally from science fiction film and literature in their work. This collage treats the marvellous, seemingly indestructible, objects of mid-century science fiction cinema as artworks in their own right.

Street performer Paul Cooper has an unlikely ally in his ongoing battle with anxiety and depression - his robot, Tubby.

Transport is a city’s living, beating soul, as lovingly depicted in A Way We Go, a documentary feature by Jacqui Hicks. With an unconventional format emphasising the wisdom and emotions of everyday people, it captures a bubbling flow of ideas and images with a vivid dash of humanistic humour.

This experimental documentary about two young Paddington dress-makers was banned for nudity, but was screened widely in Australia without complaint.

In Harro & Big Barra, lure fishing legend Rob Harrison takes viewers on travels into remote Arnhemland in pursuit of big barramundi. ‘Harro’ shares his fond knowledge of these finned icons, and puts you right into the picture to show you how to come to grips with those fish of a lifetime.

In the circle of life - birth, survival and death, Aboriginal people have a network of sites and tracks, embedded in the land, that connect them to all things and enable them to practice their laws, traditions and beliefs. Colonisation in Australia, denied Aboriginal people access to their land - breaking the life cycle for Aboriginal people. The Free-Settler Colony of South Australia was going to be different. King William IV recognised the continued rights to land for Aboriginal people in South Australia's founding document, the Letters Patent, in Feb 1836. The first ever Aboriginal rights granted in Australia's colonial history. Rights to the land, to occupy and enjoy their land for always, enshrined in law by the King's seal. What actually occurred in South Australia after colonisation in 1836 was treason. The King's Letters Patent was disobeyed and Aboriginal rights that were granted, to occupy and enjoy their land, were denied.

This short film brings together the artworks and stories of 6 leading artists and choristers: Judith Pungarta Inkamala and Anita Mbitjana Ratara of Hermannsburg Potters alongside Marjorie Nungarrayi Williams, N. Donald, Betty Conway and Lizzie Jako of Tangentyere Artists. ‘Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling’ charts the international legacy, inter generational impact, and joy of the Hermannsburg Choir and subsequent iterations; Ntaria Ladies Choir and the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir.

A biopic of Australian fisherman, photographer and physicist, Richard Freeman and his fascinating, theoretical, Natural Model of the Universe. In this film, Mr. Freeman showcases scientific proofs that prove out his new model, all while detailing his life as a fisherman for over 40 years on Australia's Sunshine Coast.

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

In 1971, Jagera elder Neville becomes the first Aboriginal Australian to enter Australian parliament. He sits for over 12 years in both state and federal parliament.

Shows how tourists get to the Centre (Central Australia). Includes: Aboriginal rock paintings, the Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, gold crushing plant, Elsey Station (home of Aeneas Gunn - shows graves on the property), Manton Dam, Darwin being rebuilt after the war.

In the middle of the so-called Colliwobbles this was the clash supercoach Tommy Hafey - against his former student Tony Jewell - hoped would end the Magpies streak of seven losing Grand Finals.

In 1949, Evelyn Orcher was abducted as a 14-year-old girl from her NSW country home. Her family lived with the pain of not knowing her whereabouts for 31 years, until 1979, when Evelyn appeared on television in an attempt to find her family. The day after the program went to air, Evelyn received a visit from a woman she had never met. It was her niece. Evelyn had finally found her family, after 31 long years. An emotional family reunion followed, but after the emotion faded, Evelyn returned to her former life. The torment of the past had opened fresh wounds, and a new struggle had just begun. Part of Message Stick series.

Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The strike, which caught the imagination of the whole country, was documented from the inside by documentarian Tom Zubrycki.

In a changing climate, this powerful documentary draws on some 65 thousand years of Indigenous knowledge, to help us better prepare for the future.

This inspiring documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of language and the crucial role it plays in the lives of newly arrived refugees in Australia. This heart-warming film tells of their experiences, from trauma endured as they fled their war-torn countries, to their search for safety and a better life in Australia.

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human condition. Part I tells the story of a postapocalyptic world where a Man feeds the ocean his blood in order for the water to continue moving, Part II is an abstract interrogation of several concepts including love and loneliness - Part III sees several ordinary people interviewed and asked various existential questions, and Part IV and V further expand upon the surreal filmic techniques present in Part II, whilst continuing the delve into existentialism.

In 1929 one of the darkest chapters in Australian industrial history was written in blood and bitterness on the Northern Coalfields of NSW, a tale that will echo across our landscape in story, song and legacy.

Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of passion and creative trailblazing as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for the $100,000 prize. In a story that spans the globe from Europe to Outback Australia, we explore one of the most personally challenging and financially tenuous vocations, and find out just what it takes to live a life in the world of visual arts.

A daughter's search for her lost family stretches from Australia to Trinidad and WWII Germany. Rich with archival images, Su Goldfish's autobiographical documentary echoes through all those touched by forced migration.

Inspired by filmmaker siblings Danielle and Lachlan Baynes’s own family story, House Divided explores the unique dynamic of intra-family footy rivalries.

A LITTLE LIFE explores the life and death of Ricci Vicenti, a 19-year-old Aboriginal youth who was shot while trying to escape from Canning Vale Remand Centre in Perth. He had been arrested for attempting to steal $75 worth of groceries to feed his wife and baby. Ricci Vicenti lived a remarkable life. This film creates a moving portrait of one individual life behind the stark statistical of Aboriginal deaths in custody.