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Rachel Landers
A Northern Town is the story of racism in Kempsey, a town in New South Wales. This powerful documentary explores the troubled history of the town, from a horrific massacre of Aboriginal people in 1838, to the brutal Kinchela Aboriginal boys'…
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Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Bastardy takes you on a journey to accompany Jack Charles, an Aboriginal man who's in and out of jail for burglary. The film starts quite heavy-handed when Jack injects drugs which he's doing since many years.
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Warwick Thornton, Johan Gabrielsson
This artfully composed documentary provides a chilling glimpse into the mind of a 20th-century explorer.
In 1910, a scientist called Erik Mjöberg led the first Swedish expedition to Australia. An entomologist by trade, Mjöberg's brief was to…
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Ivan Sen
Fire Talker is a documentary biopic about Australian Aboriginal political activist, footballer and administrator, Dr Charles Perkins (aka Charlie Perkins).
Charles Perkins is an Australian Indigenous rights activist of the 2nd half of the 20th…
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Darren Dale, Rachel Perkins
First Australians is a landmark documentary series that tells a very different story of Australia. It has been described as "one of the most significant documentary series in the history of Australian television".
For the first time, the story of…
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John Harding
The Fitzroy Stars was one of the first all-Indigenous football clubs in the early 70's and folding in the early 90's.
After 14 years, ex-player Troy Austin is on a mission to resurrect the Fitzroy Stars football club, and as we follow his journey…
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Tom Murray
In My Father's Country is a feature documentary which takes your inside the Dhuruputji community in remote Australia as it prepares a young boy for a ritual initiation ceremony.
Handled with great sensitivity and humour, In My Father's Country…
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Eddie Martin
In 1968, Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose became the the first Indigenous world bantamweight boxing champion when after 15 rounds he defeated Fighting Harada in Tokyo. He returned home to a hero's welcome by a crowd of 250,000.
Lionel is a very lucid…
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Tom E Lewis
In One River All Rivers first-time director Tom E Lewis points out how rivers are an important part in both Aboriginal lives and Aboriginal culture.
But many of them are threatened by mining. This short documentary might have been inspired by…
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Jedda Puruntatameri
One Tree, One Man is a short film which tells the story of the only remaining Tamarind tree left standing in the centre of Pirlangimpi, on the Tiwi islands.
There is only one man left to tell its story. 90 year old Justin, elder and Master of…
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Darlene Johnson
River of No Return is the story of Frances Djulibing, a 45-year-old Yolngu woman and mother of three who comes from the remote community of Ramingining in Northeast Arnhem Land (NT).
Like many young girls, Frances dreamed of being a movie star—a…
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Matt Norman
Salute is the story of how Peter Norman, a white Australian sprinter, became a hero in black America, even as he was virtually written out of the annals of Australia's Olympic history.
On one level, it is a story of real idealism, on another, it's…
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Julie Nimmo
The Intervention: Katherine, NT traces over one year the impact of the emergency intervention which the federal government started in the Northern Territory in 2007 in response to a report about widespread child abuse.
The movie adopts a…
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David Vadiveloo
Since it was established in 1904, the Cape York community of Aurukun has been torn apart by riots and the community school has poorest academic record of any school in Queensland. It is one of the toughest Aboriginal communities in Australia to work…
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Frank Djirrimbilpilwy Garawirritja
Yolngu Guya Djamamirr is a documentary about the Chooky Dancers who became famous after a video of 'Zorba the Greek - Yolngu style' had been posted on YouTube.
But the story behind the Chooky Dancers' performance is not told on YouTube, a void that…
