Titles tagged with ‘fire’
8 titles - sorted by title / by year
Around a Gum Tree (1949)
Using Australia’s many species of gum trees as an analogy, this black-and-white documentary looks at the wide range of industries, employment sectors and lifestyles which emerge ‘around a ...
The Last True Action Hero (1995)
The fire and rescue service has always attracted recruits. The film follows young trainee fire fighters as they experience the dangers and challenges of their chosen profession. We ...
Mystery Island (1937)
An inter-island steamer bound for Noumea is wrecked on an island reef during a storm. The survivors include an Australian detective and a killer, whose identities are known ...
Nature of Australia – Land of Flood and Fire (1988)
This is the story of the seasonal cycle of northern Australia, where every year fierce monsoonal rains break the drought. The animals and plants must cope with the ...
Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
Not Quite Hollywood is a documentary about Australian exploitation films of the 1970s and 80s. In the 1960s, local feature film production was virtually nonexistent and Australian film ...
Pathe Animated Gazette: Fire Breaks Out at Hornsby, Sydney (c1908)
An Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette newsreel from around 1908 which contains items including a fire at Hornsby in Sydney, the funeral procession for the late ...
A Shifting Dreaming (1982)
A partly-dramatised documentary by Bob Plasto, which attempts to trace Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations through three significant events: the Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory in 1928 in ...
The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (1988)
Australian producer-director Ken G Hall talks to camera about five of his films – On Our Selection (1932), The Squatter’s Daughter (1933), Tall Timbers (1937), It Isn’t Done ...
