Stories

The lost 1920s Australian sporting film starring Squizzy Taylor, the Melbourne gangster and subject of Underbelly: Squizzy (2013).

Sixteen interviews have been recorded with graduating students for the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project.

On Thursday 26 September 1974, a global musical phenomenon arrived in Canberra.

See a snapshot of South Australia's history, featuring Mount Gambier, Adelaide and Naracoorte.

It was with real sadness that we learnt of Dennis O’Rourke’s death on 15 June at the age of 68. Senior Curator Meg Labrum writes.

The Indigenous collections team at the NFSA are celebrating the lives and careers of pioneer female Indigenous recording artists with the forthcoming ‘Black and Deadly’ exhibit in Canberra.

Police, bomb threats, barbed wire, protests ... A tour by the Springboks rugby union team in winter 1971 galvanised anti-apartheid protesters and transformed Canberra.

A selection of films made about the South West of Western Australia dating from 1907 to 1972.

NFSA Manager, National Media Miguel Gonzalez discovered an article written by Ken G Hall in 1950, about the future of television. The legendary Australian filmmaker was right about most of his predictions!

Arc Cinema Screening Program Manager Quentin Turnour looks at the SAFC’s work in the 1980s and early ‘90s.