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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
Carlton and Collingwood VFL teams line up on the MCG before the 1970 grand final match.

1970 VFL Grand Final: 50 Years On

Rare broadcast coverage released on the 50th anniversary of the AFL’s most famous grand final.

By Simon Smith / 19 Oct 2020
Television
Kylie Minogue is standing on a stage with a foot up on an amplifier in a power pose. There are dancers in front of her and two musicians on stage with her playing guitar.

Kylie's story

The ❤ Kylie: A Celebration Collection Story on Kylie Minogue is sure to have you Spinning Around!

By Beth Taylor / 16 Oct 2020
Film
Photographs
Sound
Television
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
Josef Bambach tried to console Isabel McDonagh in a scene from the 1929 silent movie The Cheaters

NFSA Restores: The Cheaters

Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.

By Tara Marynowsky / 12 Oct 2020
Film

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
Bronze chariot rider and four horses atop the Brandenburg Gate

German Reunification: 30 years

To mark the 30th anniversary of German reunification on 3 October 2020, we are sharing clips from our TV Newscaf news and current affairs collection.

Television

Deep Dive: Making Waves + Emma Bortignon

In 2020 the NFSA screened the documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, followed by a Q&A with award-winning Australian sound designer Emma Bortignon.

By Johnny Milner / 29 Sep 2020
Film

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
A stylised double-helix DNA pattern

NFSA + DNA

An iconic moment which has metaphorically become part of Australia’s DNA – Cathy Freeman's historic Olympic victory from 20 years ago – is now stored on actual DNA, thanks to a new NFSA data storage pilot project.

By Miguel Gonzalez / 25 Sep 2020
Television