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Hear stories about leading stars and filmmakers featured in our Australians & Hollywood exhibition.
In a new Inspired video interview, Leah Purcell talks about the impact of seeing black worlds on screen.
See rare home movies of the 1939 Wallabies bound for a UK tour that never happened.
When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened on 19 March 1932, Cinesound Productions' newsreel secured the scoop of a lifetime.
Listen to a Q&A with director Sonia Bible at Arc cinema in 2021, after a screening of her documentary The Witch of Kings Cross.
The NFSA has identified rare footage of the 1920–21 Ashes Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest-running comic strip character, has chalked up a century. The NFSA marks the milestone with newly digitised footage of Ginger and his creator James Charles Bancks.
In celebration of the 160th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba’s birth, we reveal previously unseen private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’.
STORYBOX runs in Darling Square from 23 April to 30 June 2021, featuring original video works by NFSA.
Folklorist, author and performer Warren Fahey has produced an online series of Sydney Stories, featuring footage from the NFSA collection.
Explore one of the more under-appreciated dimensions of cinema through our Australian Film Music curated collection.
Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.
As part of our Newscaf series, we revisit the opening of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney on 15 September 2000.
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