Stories

Graham Shirley and Meg Labrum celebrate the life and work of film historian Judy Adamson.

Film, documents and artefacts curator Jillian Mackenzie lifts the lid on a 1947 Wurlitzer Jukebox from the NFSA collection.

Recently discovered in the NFSA collection is a 1940s radio drama based on the life of the educated and handsome bushranger Andrew George Scott, aka Captain Moonlite (1842-1880).

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.