Digital History Prize

2024

Submissions open

About the award

The Digital History Prize ($15,000, formerly the Multimedia History Prize) is for an Australian historian’s interpretation of an historical subject, using non-print media. Entries could include a feature-length fiction film, a documentary film, a documentary for radio or television, a DVD, website, podcast, application for mobile/handheld device or other form of multimedia. This award will be judged on the quality of historical research and analysis, artistic merit and effective and appropriate use of the medium. The production should communicate its subject in ways that engage and enlighten audiences and should encourage an interest in and appreciation for history.

Past winners

2023

Winner

The Australian Wars, Episode 1

Rachel Perkins , Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey and Don Watson

Blackfella Films

2022

Winner

The Last Outlaws

Chief investigator: Professor Katherine Biber , First Nations Family and Cultural Advisor: Aunty Loretta Parsley

Impact Studios, the University of Technology Sydney

2021

Winner

FREEMAN

Laurence Billiet

General Strike and Matchbox Pictures

2020

Winner

'Experiment Street'

Noëlle Janaczewska , Ros Bluett and Russell Stapleton

ABC Radio National: The History Listen

2019

Winner

The Killing Times

Lorena Allam , Nick Evershed, Carly Earl, Paul Daley, Andy Ball, Ciaran O’Mahony, Jeremy Nadel and the University of Newcastle Colonial Massacres Research Team

Guardian Australia