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My Spirit is Black is a production of the ABC about Matthew Doyle's discovery of his Aboriginality when he was 11. He is a descendant of the Muruwari people from the Lightning Ridge area of NSW and grew up in Southern Sydney on Dharawal land.
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Essie Coffey
My Survival As An Aboriginal rocked Australia and the world with its presentation of atrocities and hardships committed against Aboriginal people.
The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss…
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Brit Arthur
In December 2005 Britt Arthur heard the news that her Uncle Robert was dead. No-one in the Arthur family had spoken about Robert in the preceding 30 years. He was the black sheep of the family, he would argue, he owed everyone money and before he…
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Ivan Sen
In his astonishing and mesmerising new film, Ivan Sen uses the conventions of the Western and the police procedural in a subtle examination of the social and political context of a small town in the Australian outback.
Aboriginal detective Jay Swan…
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Rachel Perkins
When Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate the disappearance of two young men from an outback cattle station, he clashes with local cop Emma James. Together their investigation will uncover a past injustice that threatens the…
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Wayne Blair, Warwick Thornton
A headless corpse is found drifting in the mangroves. The trail leads Detective Swan (a man of few words in a big cowboy hat), who has just arrived in the middle of nowhere, and his young colleague Fran, into the world of narcotics.
In addition,…
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Dylan River
Mystery Road: Origin explores how a tragic death, an epic love, and the brutal reality of life as a police officer straddling two worlds, form the mould out which Detective Jay Swan emerges.
It’s 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new century.…
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Kimberley West
A story from the Bugarregarre time (the Dreamtime) when the spirit beings came out of the ocean, and woke up the silent, barren land as they moved from Dabberdabbergun in the west to the land of the rising sun, creating life and importantly, water,…
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Billy McPherson
Nalingu: a story about belonging, even when you are dead.
After the death of his cousin, Bobby takes his family to Queensland for the funeral. He and his daughter Lucy-Ann decide to stay, but homesick and unemployed their home-away-from home in…
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Tim Mummery
Namarali charts artist Donny (Yorna) Woolagoodja's quest to rekindle deep connections with his traditional ancestral culture.
Yorna's spiritual beliefs revolve around the wandjina: creator beings whose images adorn the caves and rock ledges…
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Scott Rankin
Namatjira is a recording of a ground-breaking stage show about Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira, performed live under the stars at Ntaria (Hermannsburg), Northern Territory. Spectacularly, it took place under the ghost gums next to the old…
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Sera Davies
From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace – Namatjira Project is the iconic story of the Namatjira family, tracing their quest for justice.
Albert Namatjira was the first Aboriginal person to be made a citizen by the…
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Dena Curtis
Nan, of Aboriginal and Irish descent, has kept an album of dead family members since the passing of her mother.
Nan meets trouble every time a new photo is taken, as her younger sister Aunty Min doesn’t share Nan or her granddaughter Fuzzy’s…
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Warwick Thornton
Who wouldn't agree that when we're little our grandparents are super heroes who know and can do everything. Nana tells us one of these stories, told from the perspective of a little girl.
She follows here nana as she goes on a bush tucker hunting…
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Peter Mungkuri, Alec Baker, Kunmanara (Jimmy) Pompey
Alec Baker, Peter Mungkuri and Kunmanara (Jimmy) Pompey are three senior artists and respected leaders from Indulkana community on the APY Lands, South Australia.In their younger years, Mungkuri, Baker and Pompey worked on cattle stations, breaking…
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Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte languages. Over 200 episodes of this series have been produced and the primary aim of Nganampa Anwernekenhe is the maintenance of Aboriginal languages and culture.
The primary…
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Erica Glynn
Ngangkari (also called Ngangkari Way) looks at the role of the 'Ngangkari' (traditional healer) in the health and well being of the Anangu people of Central Australia.
It introduces three renowned Ngangkari specialists, Andy Tjilari, Rupert Peters…
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Ben McFadyen
Ngumpin Kartiya tells untold stories of the Wave Hill walk-off and the Gurindji people while also revealing the true significance of the iconic song From Little Things Big Things Grow.
The documentary looks at a proud and sometimes difficult…
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Sio Tusa Fa'aaefili
Nia's sister has killed herself and left a big hole in the family structure, making it difficult for Nia to cope.
Nia dreams of becoming a nurse in the 'big smoke' of Perth. Nia's Melancholy shows her falling asleep in the forest where she wakes up…
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Tracey Moffatt
Nice Coloured Girls focuses on the sexual relations between Aboriginal women and white men, skilfully telling a story of historicity about how sexuality has played a role in the colonisation of Australia that continues into the present.
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Rhonda Hagan
Remember the song "Ten Little Nigger Boys" or "Nigger Boy Licorice"? When you were young you probably didn't think twice about it, but as you grew up you realised that the word 'nigger' is defamatory and racist.
This is what Stephen Hagan, an…
