Until the age of 9, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks (1937–2022) lived on remote Utopia Station in the Northern Territory where she learnt the Aboriginal laws of her tribe, the Amatjere (Anmatyerre) people.

In this scene, Jedda (Rosalie Kunoth-Monks) sits and begins to play the piano in a European style.

Directed and produced by legendary Australian director Charles Chauvel, written by Chauvel and starring Chips Rafferty, Forty Thousand Horsemen tells the story of three young Australians w

Listen to Dr Andrew Pike's special presentation at the NFSA about Australian film icon, Chips Rafferty.

A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.

This year, we're marking World Television Day on 21 November by sharing two recent ‘finds’ in the NFSA’s vast television collection.

Following three decades of involvement in the Australian film industry, husband and wife filmmakers Charles and Elsa Chauvel transferred their talents to the burgeoning medium of television

Arthur Tauchert (Jack Bronson) drinking with Charles O'Mara (Ferris), Doris Ashwin (Dell Ferris) is standing beside the table holding a bottle in a film still from The Moth of Moonbi (1926

Jedda (1955) is Charles Chauvel’s last film and is historic both for being the first colour feature film made in Australia, but more importantly, because it is arguably the first Australian film to take the emotional lives of Aboriginal people seriously.

Graham Shirley and Meg Labrum mark the passing of Susanne Chauvel Carlsson this week in Toowoomba, Queensland, after a short illness.