Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

Kylie Minogue head and shoulders shot. She is looking upwards and is pictured against a black background.
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Kylie

This article contains 5 audio items, 9 images and 54 videos
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An AFL game in progress with players on the field and a large crowd in the stadium

AFL

'In there and fight!' We celebrate what is arguably Australia's most popular sport.

This article contains 3 audio items and 18 videos
The crowd at the second State of Origin rugby league game in Sydney, 2009

Rugby league

See memorable rugby league moments from 1922 to 1999.

This article contains 1 image and 21 videos
A man carrying a suitcase is silhouetted against a bush landscape at night

Australian Horror Movies

Brace yourself for a trip into the eerie, grisly and downright disturbing.

This article contains 1 image and 28 videos

List of Curated collections

Total collections: 174

Sydney time capsule

See Sydney in all its shiny magnificence, from Australia's first recorded moving image filmed at Prince Alfred Park in 1896 to contemporary colour footage.

This article contains 4 audio items, 2 images and 45 videos
Sydney
Australia
time capsules
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Skiers outside a ski lodge in 1961

Skiing in Australia

Does Australia really have more snow than Switzerland? For some people it comes as a surprise to hear that Australia receives any snow at all!

This article contains 18 videos
skiing
sports
snow
Snowy Mountains
alps
View from a window that has been shattered showing a dark, shadowy figure of a man walking through a grassy field between some trees.

True Crime Mysteries

In this collection of Australian unsolved true crime mysteries you'll discover bizarre, sinister and heartbreaking stories from Australia's criminal past.

This article contains 26 videos
mysteries
true crime
murder
police
news coverage
View from above of four Aboriginal art colours - white, red, yellow and black - used traditionally from natural materials in nature.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists

This collection illustrates the many and varied ways that Australia's First Peoples express themselves through art.

This article contains 18 videos
Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

Johnny O'Keefe

Relive the life and music of the Wild One - Australia's king of rock'n'roll, Johnny O'Keefe.

This article contains 13 audio items, 2 documents, 19 images and 10 videos
Johnny O'Keefe
Detail from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome poster featuring illustrations of stars Tina Turner and Mel Gibson

Mad Max 3 and 4

The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart.

This article contains 1 audio item, 10 images and 13 videos
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
Mel Gibson
Tina Turner
Tom Hardy
Charlize Theron
1980s
2010s
Australian films
Mad Max walking resolutely down the middle of a desert highway, gun in hand

Mad Max 2

Mad Max 2 – retitled The Road Warrior in the US – is a standard-bearer for successful sequels and one of the greatest action movies of all time.

This article contains 1 audio item, 9 images and 10 videos
Mad Max 2
George Miller
Mel Gibson
1980s
Australian films
cars
motorcycles
apocalypse
stunts
Mad Max dressed in his motorcycle cop leathers stands in front of an overturned car, looking dispassionately away

Mad Max

It's hard to overstate the influence of Mad Max – on filmmakers, action cinema and the course of Australian movies.

This article contains 3 audio items, 11 images and 6 videos
Mad Max
1970s
George Miller
Australian films
cars
motorcycles
police