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Mario Andreacchio
At an island archeological dig, Professor Bernard Thornton discovers Aboriginal artifacts in a cave. They include a bracelet that appears to belong to an Aboriginal woman, Warindji, who was murdered by whalers in 1856.
Nine months later, the…
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Margaret McHugh
The Drover's Boy is a ‘hybrid’ blend of music, documentary and drama.
The story is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. It was not uncommon for a drover…
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Malcolm McDonald
Thoroughly researched and expertly realised The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley tells the remarkable true story of the escaped convict who spent 32 years living with an Aboriginal tribe in south-eastern Australia before it was exposed to white…
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Ian Darling
Adam Goodes was a champion AFL footballer and Aboriginal leader.In the final three years of his playing career he became a lightning rod for a heated public debate and widespread media commentary that divided the nation.
He publicly called out a…
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Bruce Beresford
Australian Bruce Beresford returned to the austerity of his first Australian films with The Fringe Dwellers. Kristina Nehm stars as an Aboriginal woman named Trilby, who along with her people lives on the fringes of 'accepted' Australian society.…
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Frank Rijavec
The Habits of New Norcia tells the story of the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia, in Western Australia. Now a popular tourist destination north of Perth, the Mission holds harsh memories for the former Aboriginal "inmates" who were…
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Judith MacDougall
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times their bark house would have been burnt, but today a “house-opening” ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait and…
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Bill Code
The Lake of Scars is a feature-length documentary produced on Dja Dja Wurrung country, with members of the Yung Balug clan, in the Australian state of Victoria.
It is a story of allyship and reconciliation at a place unlike anywhere else…
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Brenda Matthews, Nathaniel Schmidt
A poignant documentary co-directed by and featuring Wiradjuri woman Brenda Matthews on a journey to find her white family – and uncover the truth about her abduction.
As a child, Brenda was handed over to a white family to be raised, before…
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Tom Haydon
The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years. In 1803, British colonisation began and in 1876, Truganini died. For a long time she was thought to have been the last full-blood and tribal…
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Peter Weir
The Last Wave tells the story of young tax lawyer, David Burton, who takes on the defence of five city Aboriginal people who seem to have killed one of their own under tribal law - but as the government doesn't acknowledge that there are tribes in…
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Aleski Vellis
In this lighthearted Australian comedy-thriller, an Aboriginal man becomes a detective after his beloved VW Kombi van is stolen.
Harry Dare, after a troubled youth during which his father mysteriously disappeared, is seen as a young married man…
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Carl T. Woods
When an ancient Aboriginal burial ground is desecrated, a vengeful spirit from the Dreaming is released, causing supernatural mayhem.
Min-min lights (named after an Aboriginal term) are mysterious lights in Australia’s Outback which appear…
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Tim Burstall
Based on a novel by Morris West, The Naked Country is a classic American cowboy tale set in Australia's exotic outback, with the Aboriginal people pitted against a rancher, Lance Dillon because he is on their land.
After a renegade Aboriginal man,…
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Jennifer Kent
The Nightingale is a brutally honest film showing the horrors of Australian invasion, set at the turn of the 19th century.The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be…
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Allan Collins ACS, Edoardo Crismani
Filmmaker Edoardo Crismani and his mother Barbara embark on a search to unravel the mystery surrounding Barbara’s father, Joe Murray, an Aboriginal boxing champion known as “The Black Panther” who danced and sang in vaudeville shows, and married a…
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Peter Dickson
The Ripple Effect is a powerful documentary primarily centred around AFL St Kilda legend and proud Noongar Nicky Winmar's generation-defining stand against racism at Victoria Park in 1993.
It provides an insight into the ongoing impacts of racism…
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Jeff Licence
Upon becoming a father, award-winning author Benjamin Allmon realised he knew nothing of the indigenous history of his home, the land of the Saltwater People, to teach his son. So he embarked on a voyage of discovery that led him further than he…
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Alan Lowery
The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written history has long applied selectivity to what it records, largely ignoring the shameful way that Aboriginal people were, and continue to be, treated.
Because Aboriginal…
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Daina Reid
Based on Kate Grenville’s novel, the two-part drama tells the deeply personal story of Will and Sal Thornhill, early convict colonists who lay claim to a plot of land on the then remote Hawkesbury River.
Will arrives in penal New South Wales and is…
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Tom Murray
The Skin of Others is a compelling portrait of an extraordinary figure, Aboriginal WWI soldier Douglas Grant.
Grant (c.1885-1951) was extraordinarily famous in his day, an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe…
