The first trans-Arctic flight took place 90 years ago. It's one of many memorable flying feats chronicled in our new Early Aviators curated collection.
We look back at highlights from Commonwealth Games held in Australia in 1938, 1962, 1982 and 2006.
We talk to Rachel Ward, star of The Thorn Birds (1983) mini-series, and take a look at the original costume design sketches in the NFSA collection.
Looking back at some of the female firsts in Australian history as captured through the NFSA's Television News and Current Affairs Program (Newscaf).
As well as featuring the biggest stars from around the world, The Mike Walsh Show kept Aussies entertained with a bevy of quirky guests.
Sound Curator Tessa Elieff celebrates World Wildlife Day with a selection of field recordings of unique Australian wildlife.
From 1958, the Top 40 pop chart helped bring the golden age of radio to a close and kickstarted a new era.
The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of the documentary Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters, about the very first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on 24 June 1978.
Meet the Amazing Miss A - popular ragtime pianist Winifred Atwell, who conquered the charts in the 1950s and later made Australia her home.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.
