A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.
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In February 1965, Dr 'Kumantjayi’ (Charlie) Perkins AO led students from the University of Sydney on a 'freedom ride’ through rural NSW to expose racial segregation in Australia.
We celebrate diversity in Australia's radio broadcasting history and the NFSA collection.
The NFSA celebrates Valentine's Day with recently restored footage of a unique wedding ceremony in the skies over Sydney in 1932.
Jenny Gall takes a close look at two of the costumes from Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, released in Australia in August 1975.
Michael Leigh surveys the long history of ethnographic filmmaking in this country and the representation of Indigenous Australians on film.
For thousands of Australian women and girls, cricket is not just a sport for the boys, but a way of life.
From lifesaving to 'soul surfing’: Paul Byrnes tracks the history of surfing and surf movies in Australia.
Watch clips from three of the annual Christmas pantomimes produced for TV in the 1960s by NWS9 in Adelaide.
The NFSA collects tens of thousands of items every year. What were some of the highlights for 2019?
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.