Titles tagged with ‘feminism’

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Age Before Beauty (1980)

Designed to provoke thought and discussion, Age Before Beauty examines the issues around ageing, as it relates to women. The film combines interviews with women (young and old), ...

Alvin Purple (1973)

Alvin (Graeme Blundell) is an average Australian bloke, except that women find him irresistible. At 16, schoolgirls chase him on bicycles and his teacher’s wife (Jill Forster) seduces ...

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Berlei Underwear TV Advertisement: Sarong Body Magic (1968)

This black-and-white television advertisement for the Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle demonstrates the wonders of a girdle that adjusts to the figure, no matter what your shape. Underwear ...

The Book Show – Germaine Greer (1992)

Andrea Stretton, co-host of The Bookshow with Dinny O’Hearn, interviews one of the world’s most famous feminists for this special edition of the show. She is talking to ...

Bread and Dripping (1981)

Four women recall raising families during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. The interviews are intercut with historical footage of the living conditions of both ...

Breathing Under Water (1991)

A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by ...

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Come In Spinner (1989)

This is the story of women in wartime – those left behind while the men are away fighting. It’s the story of three very different women who work ...

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Dead Calm (1989)

Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed ...

Don’s Party (1976)

On federal election night in 1969, Don and Kath Henderson (John Hargreaves and Jeanie Drynan) host a party, to celebrate what they expect will be a Labor victory ...

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For Love or Money (1983)

Using a vast array of historical footage, the film proposes a history of women and work in Australia, from 1788 to 1983.

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Hephzibah (1998)

A biography of Hephzibah Menuhin (1920–1981), using home movies, still photographs, extracts from Hephzibah’s letters, film of concert performances and interviews with family and friends. Hephzibah and her ...

Heritage (1935)

James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett), a dashing and ambitious young settler in the new colony at Sydney Cove, woos Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maquire), a fiery young Irish girl, when ...

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Journey among Women (1977)

In the earliest years of Australian settlement, Elizabeth Harrington, a high-born and headstrong young woman (Jeune Pritchard) helps a group of convict women to escape constant rape by ...

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Kylie Tennant (1986)

An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985.

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Maidens (1978)

Maidens is a biographical chronicle. It uses personal archives, made up of still and moving image, from both domestic and vocational sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to ...

Masterpiece Special – Judy Davis (1996)

A wide-ranging interview with Australian actress Judy Davis, who has starred in over 20 movies since she came into our lives with My Brilliant Career (1979), her debut ...

My Brilliant Career (1979)

During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an ...

My Life Without Steve (1986)

After a lengthy romance, Steve (who is only seen in photographs and is played by Mark McManus) has left Liz (Jenny Vuletic). During the months that follow, the ...

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The Plumber (1979)

Jilly (Judy Morris) and Brian (Robert Coleby) are young academics, living in a high-rise university flat in Adelaide. They have recently returned from the highlands of Papua New ...

Police Rescue – By the Book (1990)

Georgia Rattray (Sonia Todd) and Micky McClintock (Gary Sweet) are attracted to each other and drifting towards a sexual relationship. Then, while McClintock is acting boss of the ...

Puberty Blues (1981)

Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja) want to be accepted by the tough surfie chicks at their school, on Sydney’s southern beaches, but once in the group, ...

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Snakes and Ladders (1987)

Combining interviews, historical footage, quirky dramatisations and short animations, Snakes and Ladders gives an account of the achievements and setbacks of Australian women attempting to gain education equality ...

Starstruck (1982)

Teenage cousins Angus (Ross O’Donovan) and Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) live in the Harbour View Hotel, beneath the Harbour Bridge in Sydney’s Rocks. Jackie is 18 and wants ...

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The Trespassers (1976)

Richard, a radical journalist (John Derum), begins an affair with Dee, an actress and activist (Judy Morris). Richard conceals the fact that he’s married, but his wife Penny ...

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The Woman Suffers (1918)

The Woman Suffers is a complicated silent melodrama of revenge and sexual betrayal, only part of which survives. In the first two reels, which have been lost, a ...

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