Guest First Nations contributor Nathan Sentance looks at how visual media has silenced the long, living history on these lands prior to European arrival.

This clip is an excerpt from the documentary A Nation is Built (1938), featuring actuality footage from a surf-livesaving carnival at a Sydney beach.

This clip is an excerpt from the documentary A Nation is Built (1938), featuring a family celebrating the 150th anniversary of Cook's landing and singing the praises of Gove

Poster for the 1938 NSW Government film A Nation is Built (Frank Hurley) featuring an Aboriginal man with a shield and spear standing with a sailing ship behind him, above is a Britis

The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford.

An intoxicated man sways before the camera. Three Aboriginal women walk into a games parlour in seedy Kings Cross. They sit at a table and check out the other patrons.

Native women grab the hat of Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) and play with it, enabling a diminutive shaman named Mestigoit (Yvan Labelle) to sneak up and confront him. Summ

The rough, smoky, communal conditions inside the teepee where Daniel (Aden Young) first makes eye contact with Chomina’s daughter, Annuka (Sandrine Holt), are contrasted with a flashback to a

This clip uses old paintings and engravings to trace the early history of the Rocks area from its inception.

Summary by Damien Parer