Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown.

Newsfront is about newsreel cameramen and production staff who are committed to finding compelling footage of newsworthy events.

Phil Noyce showed a copy of his short film Castor and Pollux to David Elfick, a magazine publisher who had made a number of successful surf movies.

Elfick, along with Mike Molloy and Philippe Mora had been discussing making a film about newsreel cameramen of the 1940s and 1950s who worked for such companies as Movietone and Cinesound Productions.

Ellis says he wrote the first draft with Howard Rubie, who had been a cameraman for Cinesound and thought he was going to direct the film.

[1] Newsfront was released on DVD in 2016, bringing a historically lauded Australian film to a worldwide audience.

Other extensive DVD-ROM study materials include an in-depth production history, an archive of reviews, and a detailed account of Newsfront's DVD restoration.