Director Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (Australia, 1980) was a tense psychological drama of injustice and brutal pragmatism in which the British put a group of Australians on trial

Listen to excerpts from Helen Garner reading her award-winning first novel Monkey Grip (1977) on Melbourne community radio in 1980.

A spectacular try for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the 1980 Grand Final.

Rough, tough and sometimes unruly: a montage of muddy games, muffed tries, collisions and funny moments in a month of rugby league.

In 1980 the Melbourne community station 3RRR FM serialised the novel, Monkey Grip, with the author reading her own text.

Men riding horses dash madly into a raging river in this dramatic scene from the movie.

Commercially manufactured theatrical projector glass slide used for advertising at the cinema.

Panoramic photo of the cast and crew from the film, including a horse with 'Snowy River 1981' painted on its side.

Horses and snow is not a familiar image for Australian cinema audiences let alone international audiences who most likely think of Australia as either red desert or golden beaches.