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It's hard to overstate the influence of Mad Max – on filmmakers, action cinema and the course of Australian movies.
Made for a paltry AUD$380,000 by George Miller in 1979, the independently-funded...
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As part of our Newscaf series, we look back at a chilling crime that devastated Victorian police 30 years ago.
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Inspired by the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur, two NSW police officers recreated the famous chariot race scene ... with motorcycles!
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The 1936 NSW Police Carnival, featuring a parade with the 'boys in blue' and stunts involving dogs, horses and a motorcycle chariot race, Ben-Hur style, which needs to be seen to be believed!
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In this teaser, leading in to Homicide’s opening title sequence, convict Edgar Thompson (Roy Alexander) is on the run after escaping from the prison farm at Beechworth. He heads for a shack in the...
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This is an excerpt from the film Outback Patrol, produced in 1952.
Outback Patrol, narrated by Chips Rafferty, follows the annual patrol of police officer Robert Darkin.
If there is a spot of...
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This National Nine News report follows the fatal shooting of two young police officers, Steven Tynan (aged 22) and Damian Eyre (20), on a routine call to Walsh St, South Yarra in Melbourne.
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This is a National Nine News report on one of the most shocking targeted attacks in Australian police history.
In the early hours of 12 October 1988, Steven Tynan (aged 22) and Damian Eyre (20),...
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Seven news report on the Walsh Street Police shootings and the beginning of the man hunt to find the killers of two young officers who were ambushed in a revenge attack against the police.
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A large number of police have surrounded the Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly and his gang attempt to release the hostages, but the nervous police open fire in the darkness and heavy rain. Superintendent...