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- Australian born film maker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films.
- Docu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was the single most important action in the struggle for land rights in Australia. This rare historical record is the only film shot from inside the heart of the protest.
- Over the course of 48 hours, three stories intertwine: Joe is looking for drugs; Leilane has run away from home, and Paul is unemployed and angry.
- A dramatised documentary showing 48 hours in the lives of members of the Aboriginal bands, No Fixed Address and Us Mob, including the racism, hostility and harassment they receive.
- When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough money to get the car repaired.
- A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.
- This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents into an equally uncommunicative relationship with a former teacher who aspires to be a poet. Cathy's self-destructive behavior is presented as a legacy of her (British) family and past.
- In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities response.
- Details the political complications of the deliberate degradation of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo: poverty, eviction, deterioration and gentrification.
- The relationship between a young man, Paul, and a confident executive, Grant, about which his soon-to-be-wife Joy knows nothing, in Auckland's gay scene in 1980, when homosexuality was illegal.
- One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.
- A failing and ageing vaudeville pageant decide to hire a nefarious strip-tease act from Sydney. The stripper (Gretel Pinninger) enlivens the small but loyal elderly audience.
- A depiction of the women involved in the peace movement contrasts greatly with media portraits of the time, and the subsequent collective memory.
- Jeremy and Teapot from the book of the same name, is a film about a young country boy who goes on voyages through the universe with his imaginary friend Teapot.
- Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Covers the the Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, the Christopher Boyce spy trial, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign territories and its former agent Victor Marchetti as well as government secrecy, security, intelligence, foreign affairs and policy.
- E. F. Schumacher visits various sites in Australia; untouched forests, rivers, waterfalls and other natural wonders describing their beauty and vital contributions to the Austalian subcontinent and then visits sites of forest destruction and logging operations and asks the pertinent question: Isn't there another way to utilize nature's resources, without destroying them in the process?. He has already given many examples of better ways in his famous book: "Small Is Beautiful".