Its famous Opera House was still under construction, but Australia's largest city was already a busy metropolis in 1966.

Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.

The NFSA's reconstruction of the censored 1917 film The Great Strike has been inscribed in the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. 

This Movietone Newsreel from 1938 follows a young boy from the suburb of Bellevue Hill as he takes a trip on his bicycle through the busy streets of Sydney.

In this short excerpt from the film Centennial Park (1979) we see a few families and groups of people enjoying a picnic in the park, making use of the public barbecuing areas and

This home movie footage was shot by Kethel Timothy (KT) Buckley, father of filmmaker Anthony Buckley, in the 1930s in Sydney.

Through our Newscaf program, we share footage of some of the famous stars who love the Opera House – including Oprah Winfrey and Jackie Chan.

For World Home Movie Day on 20 October we share early colour home movies of Sydney and San Francisco from award-winning filmmaker and NFSA Ambassador, Anthony Buckley.

Photographs, news and home movie footage capture the excitement of the opening of the Sydney Opera House on 20 October 1973.

The Sydney Opera House was officially opened on 20 October 1973 – 14 years after construction began.