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Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo holding Deborah Mailma as Bonita Mabo in his arms. A Christian cross hangs on the wall.
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The Buwindja Collection

NFSA Player
A woman wearing pale face and body paint and a pale dress with red shadings stands on a dusty dirt road as smoke rises on the horizon.
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NFSA Player

The Buwindja Collection

The Buwindja Collection, now available to stream on NFSA Player, celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trailblazers, icons and dreamers.
Image: Spear (2015)
Nicole Kidman seated on an ornate bench with an open book beside her. She is dressed in period costume from the 1880s as a rich heiress in a scene from The Portrait of a Lady.
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Screenings

Jane Campion retrospective

See all of Campion's features, a selection of her short films and a new documentary about her life and career.
Image: Nicole Kidman in The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Giorgio Mangiamele looking into a movie camera in the 1950s
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Article

Giorgio Mangiamele

The NFSA has restored four landmark films by Italian-Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele.
Looking down on the set of the TV series The Gods of Wheat Street. A small crowd of crew members are standing outside the set of a petrol station.
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Article

A Short History of First Nations Filmmaking

Within a generation, First Nations filmmakers have become a vibrant presence in Australian filmmaking.
Image: on the set of The Gods of Wheat Street (2014)
People looking at items in an exhibition space.
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Exhibition

Australians & Hollywood Exhibition

Australians & Hollywood celebrates the people and stories behind our films. Now updated to include ELVIS, The Power of the Dog and more.
A First Nations man and woman sit together on a beach looking at each other and smiling in a scene from Mabo.
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Article

Nangamai (Dream)

The NFSA is proud to present Nangamai ('Dream' in Dharawal language), a collection of online First Nations content.
Image: Jimi Bani and Deborah Mailman in Mabo (2012)
A blue plastic tea set embossed with the Skippy TV series logo and a kangaroo and consisting of tea cup and saucer, milk jug and plates
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Collection artefact

Skippy tea set and collection

Skippy's 'very own tea set' is modelled to look like fine English china, but is actually made of pastel blue plastic.
A video game joystick
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Article

Gaming and Australian culture

How have video games intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s?
A view down Elizabeth Street in 1931 showing cars and trams and pedestrians crossing the road
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Article

Capital city time capsules

These collections of vintage videos bring Australia's capital cities to life.
Image: Elizabeth St, Sydney, 1931. Photo: John Carnemolla
Colourised image of a Tasmanian tiger pacing its cage in Hobart Zoo
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Tasmanian Tiger in Colour

View the extraordinary colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Thylacine in captivity.