Five years before the first Mardi Gras, a national Gay Pride festival took place in Australian capital cities in September 1973. We share news footage of the Sydney demonstration and interviews with LGBTQIA+ activists.
Curator Simon Smith explores how a graphic Logie-winning documentary from 1975 exposed the devastating toll of serious road accidents in Australia, a reality as urgent today as it was then.
Enjoy your courtside pass to Australian tennis history with rare archival footage, surprising stories and legendary moments from the icons who shaped the game.
Below are some of the works audiences kept coming back to: the top stories across the NFSA website, social channels and YouTube in 2025.
Go behind-the-scenes at the circus with rare home movie footage of Australia's Con Colleano, the world-famous 'Wizard of the Wire'.
The marvellous creatures that inhabit our land and seas have us in a constant state of awe. This selection from Australian nature documentaries shows the breadth of an ecology that deserves our wonder, respect and care.
Fifty years on from the events of 11 November 1975, Johnny Milner revisits the day Gough Whitlam was dismissed as Prime Minister, and the recordings that captured a defining moment in Australian political history.
The NFSA and the National Film Institute (NFI) of Papua New Guinea (PNG) have co-designed a project to assist the NFI with preserving and storing their film archive, including digitising and returning at-risk PNG films.
Christopher Pidcock, a cellist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, played Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Bach, and we recorded it on wax cylinder – just the way it would have been done in the 19th century.
The 1980s and ’90s were the heyday of TV game shows: you could pit your wits against the contestants on Sale of the Century, scream your way through Supermarket Sweep and dream of finding a Perfect Match.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.
