NOW RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! ANGELS OF WAR captures the experiences of villagers who lived through the Papua New Guinea campaign. Caught up in a war they could not understand or influence, they had no choice but to obey whoever held the gun. Their homes were bombed. They starved…
ALLIES is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity…
Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line is over two decades old, but for the past three years he hasn’t had the opportunity to do much work on it. In part two of this feature, guests attending a National Model Railroad Association convention arrive to tour the layout and Joe holds a special operating…
A film by Mike Rubbo. Olive's family name was Dangerfield and her hair was red. Coming home from school together, this Katie Raven would sing out; "Red for danger! Danger on the field!" "I'll show you danger," Olive grunted one day, winding up her arm. "I gave…
Terry Jones (Monty Python) mixes expert insight, animation, puppetry and song to explain economics to everyone. Why do crashes keep happening? Why are students taught crashes don't occur? Do you shop for grapes like a Puerto Rican monkey?
A film directed by Zhang Zeming and Paul Liu. Produced by Zhang Zeming and Andrew and Harriet Pike The extraordinary story of seven retired Chinese from different backgrounds and life experiences come together to form a cycling team. They take an extraordinary journey from the industrial city of…
The film radically transfers Peter Tchaikovsky into the present time and draws an emotional psychological portrait. Tchaikovsky’s fate, being at the mercy of a homophobic environment as a gay man, comes up for current discussion. Additionally, renowned international artists and experts reveal their…
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history. But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a…
As a young painter in New York City, George Segal was profoundly impressed by the dignity and humanity of Abstract Expressionism. At the same time, along with artist friends such as Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, he was acutely conscious of the homogenizing effects of…
This rental is intended for educational use and is allowed to be streamed in classrooms, workshops, and small community settings. For theatrical or large community screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. A film by Phillip Montgomery Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing…
This rental is intended for educational use and is allowed to be streamed in classrooms, workshops, and small community settings. For theatrical or large community screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator…
A film by Ivo Burum and Philip Batty. A small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions of the white man's world and their expectations of what the white world had to offer. BENNY AND THE DREAMERS reveals…
