Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

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True Crime Mysteries

This article contains 26 videos

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Skiing

See the development of skiing in Australia from the 1920s onwards.

This article contains 18 videos

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

Featuring many ways that Australia's First Peoples express themselves through art.

This article contains 18 videos

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Australian Tennis Stars

For Wimbledon Fortnight, we serve up highlights from Australian stars.

This article contains 20 videos

List of Curated collections

Total collections: 170

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Retro Gaming

The NFSA recently announced it is collecting Australian video games for preservation. But video games have long had an impact on the NFSA collection.

This article contains 8 audio items, 1 image and 17 videos

Sounds of Australia 2019

Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2019.

This article contains 10 audio items

Sounds of Australia

2010s

Archie Roach

Archie Roach's powerful songs tell his story of heartbreaking loss, love and healing through music.

This article contains 5 audio items, 5 images and 31 videos

Archie Roach

Indigenous Australians

Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter

Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter were partners in life and music for more than 35 years before Ruby's death in 2010.

This article contains 2 audio items, 2 images and 12 videos

Archie Roach

Ruby Hunter

Indigenous Australians

Musical Advent Calendar

Like a fine box of assorted chocolates, our Advent Sound Calendar has something for all tastes.

This article contains 24 audio items

Christmas

Dreaming of a white Christmas? Not in Australia! It's that time of the year when Santa Claus hits the surf and Rudolph's nose gets shinier in the summer heat.

This article contains 4 audio items, 5 images and 18 videos

Christmas

Jack Grimsley: Ad Music and TV Themes

Jack Grimsley is responsible for some of the most recognisable Australian music of the 1960s and '70s.

This article contains 18 audio items and 1 image

Australian Horror Films

Australian filmmakers have produced their fair share of movies featuring zombies, vampires and ghosts – as well as marsupial werewolves, mutant pigs and murderous crocodiles.

This article contains 1 image and 27 videos

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