The National Film and Sound Archive’s australianscreen online is an interactive web-based resource that provides access to a wide variety of moving image material. It encompasses nearly 1400 Australian feature films, documentaries, advertisements and television programs from the last 110 years. The titles contained within australianscreen online are sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive and its collection partners – the National Archives, the ABC, SBS and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

A diverse selection of titles from the National Archives, dating from the late 1930s to the 1990s, can be viewed on australianscreen online. This selection contains films about nuclear tests, banking and military operations. Specific titles include Where Giants Meet (a 1948 film used to recruit high country bushmen to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme) and Olympic Post Script (a 1956 film highlighting the telecommunications services set up for the 1956 Olympic Games, with rarely seen footage of the sporting events). Also of note is Holt – Film Re-enactment of the Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance of the PM, Victorian Police footage from 1967 re-creating the unexplained disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt.

Video copies of the complete films are also available to view, on request, at the National Archives reading room in Sydney.