The new NFSA documentary Steam on the Harbour showcases Darling Harbour as a busy railway goods yard, long before it became a Sydney tourist destination.

Go!! helped launch the 0-10 television network in 1964 and was ‘Australia’s swingin’est teenage show’. 

Still of Jacki Weaver in a 1965 television commercial for Rice Krinkles.

Fifty years ago, on 21 June 1966, Australia was shocked when Labor and Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell was shot at close range by 19-year-old Peter Kocan.

Watch Batman and Robin arrive at an Australian nightclub in this newsreel from 1966.

Australia converted to decimal currency on 14 February 1966. As the jingle says 'Clink go the cents folks, clink, clink, clink. Changeover day is closer than you think.'

Groundbreaking Australian TV crime drama Homicide debuted in October 1964. Broadcast curator Simon Smith celebrates its 50th anniversary with behind-the-scenes images, production documents and interviews from the show's history.

Watch three amateur films from the 1950s and 60s on the theme of 'fashion’.

The NFSA looks to the television collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Channel 10 in Melbourne, then known as ATV0. Part 1 of 2 in this series.

To mark the Beatles Australian tour anniversary celebration, the NFSA has compiled clips of Beatlemania at its highest - and loudest - point.