Curated Film & Sound Selection

Featured Curated collection

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

Home movies

This article contains 48 videos
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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.

This article contains 2 images and 33 videos
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

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
Head and shoulders publicity image of a young John Farnham, circa early 1970s, he's wearing a suit and tie looking directly at the camera.

John Farnham

Hailed as Australia's finest singer, John Farnham's career spans six decades and has touched music, theatre, television and film. 

This article contains 4 audio items, 1 image and 26 videos
John Farnham
Australian singers
Australian music
popular music
Singer John Farnham, circa late 1980s wearing a black jacket, pictured from the shoulders up. He has his head tilted slightly towards the camera and is smiling.

More John Farnham

Enjoy more collection items celebrating Australian music legend, the one and only John Farnham.

This article contains 3 audio items, 2 documents, 4 images and 13 videos
John Farnham
Australian singers
popular music
Australian music
Sonny sits on a rock with Skippy the kangaroo's paws resting on his arm

Skippy

'What's that, Skip? More than 50 years an icon?'.

This article contains 4 audio items, 1 image and 19 videos
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Skippy
kangaroos
Skippy the kangaroo on a rock with Waratah National Park headquarters in the background

More Skippy

Even more collection items celebrating the 1960s adventures of Skippy and Sonny in Waratah National Park.

This article contains 6 audio items, 8 images and 12 videos
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Skippy
kangaroos
Aerial photo of the Gold Coast showing long stretch of beach, ocean and high rise buildings.

Gold Coast time capsule

With its warm climate and spectacular beaches, the Gold Coast has been a major holiday destination since the 1950s. 

This article contains 1 audio item and 12 videos
Queensland