Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

Old film projector shining light onto a rectangular white screen in a dark room

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Home movies

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Detail of the prize wheel on the Wheel of Fortune game show

TV Game Shows

See clips from Perfect Match, Sale of the Century, It's a Knockout and more.

This article contains 1 audio item and 34 videos

A smiling woman in a wedding dress and veil

NFSA Restores

Newly digitised titles Floating Life and Radiance are screening at film festivals.

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An Aboriginal girl in an overcoat smiling and holding on to a wire fence in the outback

Rabbit-Proof Fence

The true story of three Aboriginal girls forcibly abducted from their mothers.

This article contains 3 audio items, 20 images and 4 videos

List of Curated collections

Total collections: 187

A crowd of patrons in 1950s Sydney outside the State Theatre which is showing A Town Like Alice

Vintage cinemas

This collection about Australian picture palaces is dedicated to the enduring pleasures of cinemagoing.

This article contains 10 images and 19 videos

Australia's Heritage: National Treasures

Chris Taylor reveals the secrets behind a fascinating mix of treasures from Australia’s National Heritage List.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

Warren Brown standing next to a large wooden surfboard

Investigating National Treasures

Take a road trip of discovery with Warren Brown as he reveals a fascinating mix of national treasures drawn from collections across Australia.

This article contains 15 videos

National Treasures

2000s

Australian history

Warren Brown holds up a gold cigarette case at the National Archives of Australia

The Prime Ministers' National Treasures

Warren Brown reveals the emotional lives of Australian prime ministers through 12 objects they used every day or otherwise adored.

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The McDonagh Sisters

This collection celebrates the work of the McDonagh sisters. In the 1920s, they became the first women to own and operate a film production company in Australia.

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female filmmakers

McDonagh sisters

silent films

Australian documentary

1920s

1930s

1960s

The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history – including in Australia.

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Vintage Cadbury Ads

This collection of Cadbury advertisements provides a wonderful snapshot of the changing attitudes towards dating, romance and fun in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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