What's on Visit The Lens
Home
What's on
Cinemas Exhibitions
Visit
How to get to ACMI Amenities Food & drink Shop School groups Families More info
Accessibility
Collections & Preservation
Projects & Partnerships
Schools & Teachers
Membership
Support us
About us
Contact us
Shop
Venue hire
Touring exhibitions
ACMI X Residency
Subscribe
The Lens

Works explorer

Black Sunday

Australia, 1926
film

Depicts the devastation caused by the notorious ‘Black Sunday’ bushfires of 1926, that wiped out the south-east of Victoria.

Read more

Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Black Tuesday

Australia, 1967
Similarity: 82%

Ash Wednesday

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 77%

From the ashes of Wednesday

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 76%

Bushfire: our summer fate

Australia, 1977
Similarity: 76%

Fire

Australia, 1961
Similarity: 74%

A Time sequence record of the Ash Wednesday fires using news reports as broadcast during the emergency

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 74%

Ash Wednesday

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 74%

Into the flames

Australia, 2009
Similarity: 73%

When a fire comes to you

Australia, MAY 2009
Similarity: 73%

Stop bushfires

Australia, 1962
Similarity: 71%

Wildfire

Australia, 1980
Similarity: 71%

The Red terror

Australia, 1942
Similarity: 71%

From the ashes: stories from the Gippsland Bushfires 06-07 : Digital Storytelling project

Australia, 2007
Similarity: 71%

Our bushfire menace

Australia, 1951
Similarity: 71%

Susso kids

Australia, 1975
Similarity: 70%

Black cloud over Bali

United Kingdom, 1965
Similarity: 70%

After the Fires

Australia, 2003
Similarity: 70%

Great Australian disasters of the 20th century

Australia, 1997
Similarity: 70%
Back to top

ADDRESS: Fed Square, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Plan your visit

OPENING HOURS

Museum
Open daily 10am – 5pm
Closed Christmas Day 25 Dec 2026

ACMI Cinemas
Check screening times

ACMI Cafe + Bar
Mon – Fri 8.30am – 4.30pm*
Sat & Sun 10am – 4.30pm*
*Hours extended to accommodate cinema sessions.

ACMI Shop
Open daily 11am – 5pm
Shop online

School groups (by advance booking only)
Mon–Fri 10am – 2.30pm

Follow ACMI on FacebookSubscribe to ACMI's YouTube channelFollow ACMI on TikTokFollow ACMI on InstagramWeChatRedNote
Subscribe

Terms & Conditions
Accessibility
Reports & Policies
Contact us

ACMI would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways of greater Melbourne, the people of the Kulin Nation, and recognise that ACMI is located on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. We recognise the connection of First Peoples to their Country and that Treaty marks a renewed relationship grounded in truth-telling, self‑determination and respect. We also acknowledge First Nations people as the original storytellers of this land and recognise their significant contribution to the contemporary moving image.