Simon Smith remembers John Landy, one of Australia’s greatest athletes.

In 1998, at the tail end of a highly successful career in the field of agricultural science, John Landy assisted the NFSA in helping to promote our latest video release, Melbourne: Films of the

As one half of the 'Leyland Brothers’, Mike Leyland traveled through the Australian outback when it was still something of a remote frontier and largely unknown to most Australians living in urban

Bruce Beresford is one of Australia’s most successful and internationally recognised film directors. But at 16 years of age Bruce was only just discovering what he could do with a movie camera.

In the first of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker looks at the vital – and often unrecognised – role that women played in bringing the first Australian TV programs to air.

This recording includes highlights from the ABC Radio broadcast of the opening ceremony of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first Australian

This recording includes highlights from the ABC Radio broadcast of the closing ceremony of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first Australian

Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2020. 

Liz Jacka describes the initial programming and influences on early television in Australia.