Curated Film & Sound Selection

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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

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

Glass slide of town planning design for Canberra

Canberra Glass Slides

These 24 glass slides show detailed plans of an alternative design for the city of Canberra.

This article contains 24 images

1910s

Canberra

glass slides

Walter Burley Griffin

Head and shoulders shot of Simon Townsend wearing a sportscoat and shirt, smiling at camera, sitting next to his pet Woodrow the bloodhound, against a deep red backdrop.

Simon Townsend's Wonder World

Forty years after Simon Townsend's Wonder World! first went to air on 3 September 1979, we celebrate this landmark children's TV program.

This article contains 2 audio items, 3 documents, 17 images and 17 videos

children's television

Animated Shorts

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

This article contains 38 videos

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.

This article contains 20 videos

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.

This article contains 22 audio items and 1 video

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.

This article contains 26 videos

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.

This article contains 23 audio items, 2 documents and 4 images

radio

radio serials

women in radio