Australia’s first foray into the police procedural was a game-changer for the domestic television industry. First broadcast in 1964, 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Homicide.
In 1984, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the National Film and Sound Archive’s new headquarters in Canberra. Fast forward 40 years, and the echoes of 1984 still reverberate.
One of the films that has long been on the NFSA’s Most Wanted list has been found. Captain Thunderbolt, directed by Cecil Holmes in 1951, is a classic Australian tale of the rebel as hero.
We explore some key examples from our Sounds of Australia capsule, the NFSA’s annual selection of iconic audio moments, honouring recordings that have resonated deeply with communities and audiences across the country.
Vivian Bullwinkel, one of Australia’s most decorated Army nurses, was the first Australian nurse and individual woman in defence service to be honoured with a scuplture in the foyer of the Australian War Memorial.
What do you get when you bring together science, data and audiovisual art? In the case of Ghost Trees, an immersive, multi-sensory ‘digital memory’ of an endangered forest.
While minorities are under-represented in Australian film, Third Culture Kids have been exploring their complex journeys on screen for decades.
Crime stories have never been more popular. They offer morality plays with heroes, villains – and occasionally clean resolutions.
The NFSA's Amal Awad spoke to ABC journalist Rachael Brown about investigating true crime and the power of podcasting.
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.
