Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

The Olympic rings on a silver satin cloth

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Olympics Highlights

This article contains 3 audio items, 1 image and 17 videos

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Jack Thompson is on top of a car with the wind blowing through his hair. He is shouting.

Wake in Fright: 50 Years

Celebrating 50 years of a piece of Australian cinema history.

This article contains 3 audio items, 11 images and 10 videos

A Commonwealth Games athlete stands on the track before a race

The Commonwealth Games

See highlights from Commonwealth Games presented in Australia.

This article contains 19 videos

David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil is a Yolngu man, dancer, actor, singer, painter and storyteller.

This article contains 2 audio items, 6 images and 27 videos

List of Curated collections

Total collections: 185

Gallipoli Campaign

This collection includes images of Anzac troops in Egypt and Gallipoli, some beautiful hand-tinted glass slides and a couple of popular songs from the First World War era.

This article contains 2 audio items, 7 images and 4 videos

Oral History - Musicians

From punk rockers to pop darlings, these Oral History interviews highlight the depth and diversity of Australian music.

This article contains 10 audio items and 4 videos

oral history

Australian music

Welcome home committee for Sir John Monash at St Kilda Pier

Newsreels - Australasian Gazette

The Australasian Gazette newsreels held at the NFSA span over three decades and capture political and national events, sport and entertainment.

This article contains 12 videos

Australasian Gazette

Leni Riefenstahl sits looking out the window in a still from the German film Der Heilige Berg, 1926.

Taussig Europe

Thousands of classic European film stills and portraits from the beginning of cinema to the 1930s are now preserved at the NFSA.

This article contains 16 images and 1 video

Taussig Collection

Cartoon drawing of a soldier in a hospital bed with a nurse standing at the end of his bed.

First World War Cartoons

Harry Julius' cartoons often commented on the events of the First World War and served as propaganda for the Allied war effort.

This article contains 13 videos

Harry Julius

Cartoons of the Moment

Darwin Time Capsule

This sample of collection items highlights the people of Darwin and some of the major events in the history of Australia's most northerly capital city.

This article contains 4 images and 19 videos

Darwin

Second World War