Models show the latest swimming costume fashions at the first annual beach inspectors' dinner in 1955.

Artist Ken Done talks about feeling proud when he sees someone wearing his work and annoyed when he sees 'bad, crass and boring' copies.

A scene from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Raymond Longford's 1919 film The Sentimental Bloke, starring Arthur Tauchert and Lottie Lyell.

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an unusual snapshot of the city's maritime history of transport, amusement and function as a working harbour. 

On 12 January 1965 the bodies of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock, both 15 years old, were found in the sand dunes at Wanda Beach, near Cronulla, in Sydney.

After the long voyage from Scotland, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) and daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) are camped on a New Zealand beach, in a tent made from Ada’s skirt hoops.

Medical doctor Yondon Dungu had migrated to Australia with his wife and three children, and had been in Australia for just one week when he drowned at Bondi Beach.

A newsreel featuring the fe

A group of senior lifeguards just happen to be standing at the edge of the water for a photo shoot when they’re told there’s been a man found floating lifeless in the surf.

A lifeguard watches over Bondi Beach in a scene from Bondi Rescue Series 1 (2006).