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Mar 2021
A group of schoolchildren playing in an Adelaide park in 1925

Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

Folklorist, author and performer Warren Fahey has produced an online series of Sydney Stories, featuring footage from the NFSA collection.

By Stephen Groenewegen / 26 Mar 2021
Film
Photographs
Television
Feb 2021
Guy Pearce in drag miming to an opera aria on top of a bus travelling through the desert

Exploring Australian Film Music

Explore one of the more under-appreciated dimensions of cinema through our Australian Film Music curated collection.

By Johnny Milner / 16 Feb 2021
Film
Jan 2021

Deep Dive: Brazen Hussies

Listen to a Q&A with the director of documentary Brazen Hussies (2020), Catherine Dwyer and influential feminist Elizabeth Reid.

By Johnny Milner / 28 Jan 2021
Film
Sound
Nov 2020
Two images of Jeanne Little in a collage. The younger Jeanne looks like she's whispering to the older Jeanne.

Celebrating Jeanne Little

Adored by Australian television audiences for decades, we list 12 reasons to love Jeanne Little.

By Beth Taylor / 9 Nov 2020
Television
Oct 2020
A passenger aircraft Boeing 747-400 in Qantas colour scheme taking off from Kingsford Smith airport

Travel Home Movies

We mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and Home Movie Day with footage of Australia's top overseas travel destinations.

By Heather Gill / 21 Oct 2020
Film
Police and rescue teams searching for bodies among twisted metal and broken concrete

1970 West Gate Bridge Disaster

Fifty years ago, on 15 October 1970, Australia's worst-ever industrial accident occurred when the West Gate Bridge collapsed into the Yarra River in Melbourne, killing 35 people.

By Adam Blackshaw / 13 Oct 2020
Television

Vale Helen Reddy

A tribute to the pioneering Australian singer Helen Reddy, who has passed away at age 78.

By Crispian Winsor / 2 Oct 2020
Sound
Sep 2020

Vale Max Merritt

Thorsten Kaeding pays tribute to Max Merritt, the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and lead singer of Max Merritt & The Meteors.

By Thorsten Kaeding / 28 Sep 2020
Sound
The Olympic flag against a blue sky

Newscaf: 2000 Sydney Olympics

As part of our Newscaf series, we revisit the opening of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney on 15 September 2000.

By Adam Blackshaw / 14 Sep 2020
Television
Dame Joan Sutherland on stage holding flowers with the cast applauding her.

Before They Were Famous: Joan Sutherland

It was 70 years ago – on 10 September 1950 – that the 23-year-old Joan Sutherland won a major singing competition that helped set her on the road to international stardom.

By Adam Blackshaw / 8 Sep 2020
Radio
Sound