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In the 1930s tensions between the government and the Indigenous peoples of Australia's north were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to make peace. For over two years, he lived with the Aboriginal people, forging strong bonds, learning and recording their way of life. His report to the government outlined a vision of land rights and other measures to protect a unique yet fragile culture - it was ignored. Ostracised by politicians and fellow academics, Thomson never gave up the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Now, his extraordinary photographs, field notes and artefacts are considered one of the most significant ethnographic collections in the world.

15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.

Seven-year-old Billy is going to swim with his sister, but two older girls start teasing him.

Everyone of us has got at least one irrational fear ... in the case of Figaro Pho, he has them all.

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to rise, then sinks; convulsions follow and then she rises and hovers above the pool. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot, a car visible on either side. Convulsions begin. The cars back up, still facing him and each other. They pause; they race toward him. He leaps. A youth, shirtless and in white shorts, stands in front of a tall building. Doors open, he enters and walks to an elevator. Convulsions strike him as he rides to a top floor, exits the elevator, pauses, and runs toward a window. He crashes through.

The Sagrada Familia, Antonio Gaudi's most ambitious creation, was begun in the 19th century and is still under construction today. With Gaudi's tragic death in 1926 and the destruction of original models during the Spanish Civil War, the building languished for decades.

These Days: Live in Concert is a live album by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger. The album consists of songs performed by Powderfinger in concerts at Sydney Entertainment Centre, and Fox Studios in Sydney. Most of the songs performed are from Powderfinger's prior studio album; Vulture Street.

The Dorothy the Dinosaur television series comes to home video as Dorothy shares her Memory Book with Wags the Dog, and they relive many amazing adventures played to familiar Wiggles tunes. Special guest vocalists including Francis Awaritefe, Rachael Beck, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kathy Gothadjaka, David Hobson, Jane Kennedy, John Rowe, Leo Sayer and Don Spencer.

Five friends set off on an adventure in a small boat. They discover a mysterious island, where, one by one, they die a terrible death.

A quick, witty, satirical look at the absurdity of life, covering everything from a golf club wielding midget to a coffee cup with an attitude.

Carmen has just graduated from her filmmaking course at university. Unable to find an outlet for her talents she decides to make a porno. After all, how hard can it be?

Deals with the challenges of ethnic hatred while growing up on the streets of Western Australia. Italo-Australians Cam and Pepe organise street fights for money, we follow their further criminal bumblings.

The lyrical and monstrous are interwoven in Gloomy Valentine, a stop motion, animated short film that tells the story of Gloomy, a woman struggling to overcome the sadness of a broken heart. Aesthetically influenced by gothic surrealism, Gloomy is haunted by memory and is ultimately consumed by nightmarish shadows.

Coverage of the glorious Olympic Opening Ceremony of the Games in Sydney. The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic games took place on Friday 15 September in Stadium Australia. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal and ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, with an artistic spectacle to showcase the host nation's culture and history.

Il Dago captures the hilarious stand up routines of some of Australia's best and most loved comedians. Never before have so many stars of Australian ethnic comedy been on the one stage at the one time. Along with rising star, Sri Lankan Australian comic Nish, are three of the most influential and prominent comedians Australia has produced. This recording features the hilarious stand up of George Kapiniaris, star of stage and screen best remembered most for his lovable character Memo on Acropolis Now. It also features another star of Acropolis Now, Simon Palomares, Ricky who, as one of the creators of the hit sage show Wogs out of Work, changed the fabric of Australian comedy forever. Hosting this historic event is Joe Avati, not only one of the biggest draw cards in Australian comedy who went on to become one of Australia's biggest comedy exports, taking ethnic comedy to Europe and North America where his comedy albums have become chart toppers.

Work? is a documentary about Bec's first experience as a sex worker catering for women.

When an aging actress, becomes ill her son Alex deals with the news in a very unexpected way. In order to cope with mother's sudden mortality, Alex imagines that he is living in TV dramas that his mother once appeared in.

Explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Closures of many independent art-house cinemas like Electric Shadows in Canberra in 2006 have made fair and equitable screening of Australian films increasingly difficult. Exhibitors debate the efficacy of the industry's Code of Conduct and unfair trade practices, while a growing number of Australian films go unreleased.

Molly & Mobarak is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Tom Zubrycki. It follows a Hazara asylum seeker, 22-year-old Mobarak Tahiri, as he falls in love with 25-year-old Molly Rule, and faces possible deportation as his temporary visa nears expiration.

The Nephilim appear to man in the days of antiquity, and now they have returned. Travis Brown, an unsuspecting pawn in the game of humanity, is about to unleash the power of darkness.

High Performance Imports v8 brings you more driving action than ever before!

At the urging of a socialist fellow Australian, filmmaker David Bradbury travels to Cuba and documents the current economic, social and cultural realities and disappointments of post-revolutionary Cuba.

“The Young & The Wrestlers” is a Documentary following a group of Canberrans who share a common hobby: Professional Wrestling! The feature length film will document a six month period as the members of the Pro Wrestling Alliance deal with their lives and each other in the lead up to the biggest show of the year ‘Clash in the Capital.’

This documentary tells the epic story of helicopter deer culling in the Southern Alps. Introduced deer had become destructive environmental pests; in the 60s entrepreneurs shifted culling from ‘man alone’ to machine-driven hunting, as deer were shot then later captured alive from helicopters. Deer Wars — Top Gun in choppers, over the beech forest — revisits the heady ‘gold rush’ days, when heli-cowboys calculated often fatal pay-offs between risk and reward. It features interviews with survivors and fearsome footage of men hanging from helicopters and leaping onto deer.

Contestants competes in a series of Tomb Raider-style challenges in the Australian outback.

A low-key naturalistic drama set in contemporary Melbourne. It charts the story of a man, Robert, who returns home and tries to resume a relationship with a woman, Angela, after a period of 18 months apart from each other.

After a short introduction of the whole family, the story of the elder brother is told.

In 1982 a man walked into a Sydney hospital with fever, fatigue and sweats - the first person diagnosed with AIDS in Australia. Experts then predicted deaths on an extraordinary scale.

Conversation ensues between a little girl and a man.

A group of disaffected twenty-somethings occupy a dystopic, hyper-urban Australia. They spend their time eating udon noodles, listening to Swedish pop music and committing mass executions for the police.

A behind-the-scenes look at the trial of Schapelle Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.

Recorded on Saturday April 19, 2003 when Silverchair brought the Across The Night tour to their hometown of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The concert was staged in the ornate and venerable Newcastle Civic Theatre - within walking distance of the band's birthplace. Surrounded by friends and family the group finally got to perform songs from their landmark albums.

When Count Bloodspit and his family of ghouls return from the Vampire Mirror World to feast on young virgins, they find famed Vampire Hunter Dr. Ludvic hot on their trail. When Ludvic steals the family crest off of Bloodspit’s coffin, the villainous vampire finds himself trapped in our dimension. Now, the hunt is on as Dr. Ludvic chases BLOODSPIT around the world trying to bury a stake in his heart once and for all!

Unlike Synetech's 'Naked Yoga', this has less instructional information, and instead focuses on the visuals of mostly women, plus one man, doing nude yoga.

An emotionally abused teenage boy fights against insanity after his mother's violent suicide in a car crash when he was nine-years-old.

Parody trailer for a low-budget grind-house thriller in which a woman rampages men with tampons.

This film tells the story of Australia's most neglected bestselling author, Arthur Upfield. Shot on location in the Outback, London and Paris and using rare archival footage, it explores how Upfield came to create the unique and highly controversial fictional hero, Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte.

A live launch from ABC’s Studio 22 in Ultimo. Short Stack, Cassie Davis, ABC3 presenters, CJ the DJ, dancers from Dance Academy, BMX and motor bike tricks will entertain invited guests.

In the summer of 1964 three unusual incidents took place on Lake Grace. The first two were totally unexplainable. The third, and most disturbing one, provided one clue... Based on the journal of sixteen-year-old Gwendolin Howard.

A man. A tumour. Twins.

A man in the middle of nowhere contemplates existence.

Frank Bannister is about to have a very long night. A writer of violent horror stories, Frank is alone, depressed and one step from full blown alcoholism. Late one dark and stormy night his quiet hermit existence is disturbed when two eccentric exotic dancers arrive on his doorstep. Alternatively seductive and sinister the beautiful women promise to make all Frank's dreams come true. They prove to be as good as their word. Only problem is, Frank is a man with very dark dreams indeed.

In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons. The Story of Bubbleboy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future.

Lonely schoolgirl Desma is determined to win the school science competition and beat her arch-rival, Celestine. When Desma discovers an incredible creature, an insect-boy endowed with a pair of moth-wings, she thinks victory is hers. But can Desma ignore her attacks of conscience and condemn the vulnerable moth-boy to win a competition? Or will she forfeit her dreams of glory and suffer another humiliating loss to Celestine? An enchanting short film about human connection, ruthless ambition and entomology.

A dramatized documentary about Daisy Bates, who promoted herself as a protector of Aboriginal Australian welfare and culture, but whose life was filled with lies and controversy.

This withdrawn concert film showcases Neil Hamburger, America's Funnyman, at the top of his game before a sympathetic Sydney crowd.

A Turkish man and Greek woman fall in and out of love.

Wil Anderson's sell-out show "Wilosophy" was filmed at the Sydney Opera House this year. This is his first ever DVD. "surprisingly heartfelt, regularly courageous and consistently funny" - The Age, 2009.

Dede Chackelis (Uncle Chatzkel) portrays the patient triumph of one man's dignity and intellect over genocide, oppression and personal adversity.

A team of scientific detectives from around the world attempt to crack one of science’s most enduring mysteries – what killed Australia’s megafauna?

An intimate look at the life of Steve Irwin

The Eureka Stockade was a civilian revolt against the gold licence. Drawings and archival photographs depict the events that lead to the battle between gold miners and authorities at the Eureka Stockade. It describes the emergence of Peter Lalor as the leader of the Stockade and how the diggers used the Southern Cross flag.

He's the self-proefssed love child of Paul Kelly and Ghandi and he's one of Australia's most loved stand-up comedians... In this very special 70 minute performance, he has the audience in stitches from the moment he walks out and says...how's it goin In order to experience the true essence of Carl Live, the camera does not move for the entire show capturing every movement, gag, grimace...etc

Enter a child’s play house and sit down. A small girl appears. Engage with her at your own risk.

An experimental music film featuring Australian rock legends Magic Dirt.