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- 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.
- Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
- Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
- In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away (1975), this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a camp in outback Australia. They swear, brawl, gamble, and drink heavily. Central to the story is the conflict between Tarzan, the authoritarian group leader and cocky loud-mouth wisecracking Pansy. This results in a bare-knuckle punch-up for the movie's denouement. Exteriors filmed in Andamooka, South Australia.
- A maniac is stalking and killing female students at a university.
- Promotional documentary filmed at the London East End Docklands area and River Thames for the filming of the opening boat chase for The World Is Not Enough (1999).
- Filmed on South Australia's glorious River Murray, this television mini-series is set during the 1920s and tells of the story of a runaway who escapes to the river to work on a paddle-boat steamer and his friendship with an old salt captain played by Bill Kerr. Based on an original novel by Max Fatchen.
- The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
- A woman doctor Dr. Kate Munro migrates to Gannet Island off South Australia in 1927. Conflict between traditional religious values and modern scientific medicine ensues as she forms a relationship with two men who are brothers, one a grazer and one a priest. This television mini-series is in the tradition of _"Thorn Birds, The" (1983) (mini)_ and was filmed on Kangaroo Island where December Boys (2007) was shot.
- Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
- Thirteen year old boy Sammy and his dad Oscar go on a road trip but the father and son team come across many obstacles and are hunted by the law in this delightful ten episode television series by South Australian children's films auteur Mario Andreacchio.
- A young couple is captured by terrorists in the Simpson Desert.
- This documentary examines the circumstances surrounding the crash of the airplane the 'Southern Cross Minor' that went down in the Sahara Desert. The film also surveys the recovery of the plane and the discovery of the skeleton of the pilot, Captain William Lancaster.
- Promotional documentary television special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of James Bond and release of the then new James Bond film 'The Living Daylights' (1987).
- Australian sport documentary about the first ever winning of the America's Cup by a non-US country. Shows the background story of the preparation, design, construction, testing, and trials of Australia's winning yacht, the Australia II. Documents the preliminary races, elimination of British yacht Victory '83 and the final main race itself where Australia is victorious over the Americans on 26 September 1983.
- First in a Seven Up! (1964) like series examining the lives of three teenage girls in South Australia during the 1970s. A sort of 14Up Australia, the series has spawned three more installments and looks at issues such as boys and sex, abortion, marriage, pregnancy, career paths, and education.
- A look at the marketing, advertising and merchandising of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964) including trailers, interviews, TV spots and rare promotional films.
- 90 minute documentary about Hollywood during the war years of World War II and the part they played in assisting the war effort and the kinds of movies and war movies that were made during that era. Features a large number of classic clips from old 1940s movies, newsreel footage, shorts and cartoons, in both colour and black-and-white.
- Agatha Christie style whodunnit based on the novel by 'Jennifer Rowe'. This two part television mini-series was made by the South Australian Film Corporation and lensed in the luscious Adelaide Hills district. Mystery is set around during a fruitpicking harvest when a murder occurs during a family reunion one weekend.
- First feature length feature of 'Scott Hicks', this black-and-white experimental short feature film is about a young drifter who drops out of university and goes bush only to later return to his girl-friend. The theme of wayward youth roaming would again be revisited by Hicks in Down the Wind (1975) and Freedom (1982).
- Religion takes control of the town when the rocks arrive from heaven.
- Documentary short about the promotion of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Portugal. Program is made up of original television footage of the movie's cast and crew meeting the press at the Palácio Hotel in Estoril, Portugal as well as rehearsing the Wedding scene for the movie.
- Promotional documentary television special celebrating the release of the then new James Bond film Moonraker (1979) (1979) and outside broadcast live cross to the 26 June 1979 Royal Premiere of the film.
- Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Covers the the Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, the Christopher Boyce spy trial, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign territories and its former agent Victor Marchetti as well as government secrecy, security, intelligence, foreign affairs and policy.
- Promotional documentary television special predominantly filmed outside Buckingham Palace and Green Park in London for the parachute sequence of the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002).