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- Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
- A group of seniors plan to break out of their retirement home.
- A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
- An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest danger of a new heist lies from within the company's own ranks.
- Recreation of the landmark 1958 South Australian Court trial of young aboriginal Max Stuart.
- A young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her telescope. As might be expected the girl and her new neighbor becomes best friends.
- After the death of his mother, Danny visits his father Matt Malloy, whose farm has been going bad lately, so his father starts smuggling Marijuana, when Danny joins him on one of his flights. Danny soon finds himself alone.
- Australian madness via the visitors-from-hell mixed with love, lust and a bloody good shiraz.
- This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
- Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
- A man in need of a tax write-off decides to let his useless daughter supervise a sculpture donation.
- A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is stuggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful career in a big business corporation.
- The fifth film in the documentary series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working class Adelaide girls since they were fourteen in 1976.
- The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
- Jack Buckskin is the sole teacher of a once extinct language. From the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, Jack's mission is to teach the Kaurna language, the language of his ancestors, to as many people as he can in his lifetime. But this is not easy. The language was driven to near extinction over a century ago. Now, Jack and fellow language speakers are sculpting a new Kaurna language and culture, and through that bring a new way of being to the youth of suburban Adelaide, in the form of a new Aboriginal identity, and with that, hope.
- "Highly Strung" A story of passion...of obsession...and possession A journey into a rarefied world of elusive tones evoked by horsehair on catgut, of investors lured to spend millions on unique instruments. The deadly sins of lust, jealousy and greed jostle with the purity of philanthropy and sonic perfection. A duel of tension and harmony in a Quartet of youthful virtuosi expanding their skills on a clutch of rare Guadagninis. An exploration of the mystery and the lost, delicate art of constructing these robust masterpieces Exquisite imagery will illuminate a complex history of enduring instruments and their temporary custodians. And then there's the music!
- Modern interviews coupled with archival footage, South Australians tell the story of their protests and persecutions surrounding the Vietnam War.
- Diane Lane is a young woman who is elected to federal parliament, and quickly learns of the conniving ambition of many of her colleagues, including her boyfriend who is already a parliamentary minister in the government. Diane succeeds.
- A lawyer falls in love with a murder suspect.
- Documentary telling the story of 5 stolen children and how they were taken from their Aboriginal heritage and community.
- Harry Dare (John Moore) is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He's still not certain why he's in the business; perhaps to understand his father's disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry's got a real case: who stole his father's old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it? Director Vellis's detective yarn both delights in the idea of a Kaurna Aboriginal man making ends meet as a private eye and in how Harry's crime-solving smarts seem to grow directly from his resilience as an Indigenous Australian.
- A journey of discovery as the filmmaker unravels the mystery surrounding his grand-pop, Aboriginal boxer and vaudevillian, known as the 'Black Panther'.
- In 2001 tons of ashed human bones were found in Melbourne, contaminated by Strontium 90, a toxic residue of nuclear weapon tests in Australia and around the world.
- Adelaide's Moving Memories is a rare collection of moving images dating from 1908 to the late 1950s showing Adelaide as it was, through newsreels, documentaries and home movies. These images recapture the lifestyles, history, development and growth of the city and its industries, and pays homage to Colonel William Light's vision and foresight for an elegant city surrounded by hills and parklands.
- This documentary follows the formation of the 10th Battalion and what became of the No.1 section scouts who were amongst the first men ashore at Gallipoli. Meanwhile Australians were finding ways to raise funds, care for the wounded and honour the dead. On 13 October 1915 South Australia's Eight Hour Day was renamed Anzac Day. A huge procession was held and events culminated with two obsolete horse drawn trams being crashed into each other and exploded in front of a crowd of 20000.
- Col William Light was the first Surveyor General for SA and planned the City of Adelaide, he was born in Penang. His father, Francis, was the founder of the British colony of George Town. Adelaide and George Town, Penang are Sister Cities