Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

Animation still of a knitted dinosaur and a knitted fox

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Animated shorts

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A woman sits in front a machine studying an image of a rocket. She is wearing a pink dress with her back to camera. To her right is a typewriter and large computer equipment. Image is from a 1950s government film.

Working Life in Australia

From the Film Australia Collection, see everyday Australians at work from 1910 to the present day.

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John Farnham

We're celebrating the amazing career of one of Australia's most loved singers, John Farnham.

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A head and shoulders still image from the film 'Plains Empty' featuring actress Ngaire Pigran wearing an olive green tank top and looking directly at camera.

Indigenous Short Films

Early works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers like Wayne Blair and Warwick Thornton.

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List of Curated collections

Total collections: 154

Animated Shorts

There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s.

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Australian filmmakers

A man working on the beach with a mobile phone and laptop and a surfboard on the sand next to him

Australians at Work

Selected from the Film Australia Collection, the clips in this collection show everyday Australians at work in a variety of contexts.

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Indigenous Sounds of Australia

This collection features sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance that are by or about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

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Indigenous music

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians

Archie Roach

Vic Simms

A young woman stands outside a corrugated iron building; an older Aboriginal woman stands in the doorway behind her

Indigenous Short Films

Highlighting short films made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers including Wayne Blair, Beck Cole, Ivan Sen, Catriona McKenzie and Warwick Thornton.

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1990s

2000s

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers

short films

Indigenous filmmakers

Grace Gibson (centre) looks over a radio serial script with two actresses.

Women in Radio

This collection celebrates the women who played an important professional role during Australia’s early years of radio broadcasting and became pioneers in media production techniques.

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radio

radio serials

women in radio