Australia: An Unofficial History
Australia: An Unofficial History is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2025.
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55:54Australia: An Unofficial History
In the latter half of the 70s, filmmaking changed as much as the country itself. With more and more diverse filmmakers behind the camera, this era saw women, Indigenous creatives, and gay activists using film as a powerful medium for social change, while the emergence of SBS fos...
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52:31Amid a period of significant political and social change, Australian filmmakers uncovered a stark contrast between the nation’s progressive aspirations and the real lives of its people.
53:52In this 3-part series, presented by screen icon Jacki Weaver, we crack open a forgotten vault of Australian government films - now stored in the National Film and Sound Archive - that unearth a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia in the 1970s.