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Burned Bridge (Heartland)

(2003)

Series | Scott Hartford-Davis, Julian Pringle, Kate Woods, Paul Faint

In the remote Australian town of Brooklyn Waters, NSW, a police officer and a radio producer investigate the horrifying murder of a young Aboriginal girl. As disturbing facts emerge during the investigation, unease between the white and black…

Bush Bikes

(2002)

Short | David Vadiveloo

In town camps and remote area communities of central Australia, Aboriginal boys and girls begin their apprenticeships early - making bush-bikes. Bush Bikes witnesses the genius of bush-bike assembly; from the greasing of parts and chains with…

Call me Mum

(2006)

Drama | Margot Nash

Call me Mum is a movie about the Stolen Generations and their effects. When Kate, a white woman, decides to reunite her Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous family and racial tensions surface. Kate is on a plane…

Coolbaroo Club

(1996)

Documentary | Roger Scholes

This hour-long documentary gives an astonishing insight into the life of an East Perth dance club—the Coolbaroo Club—run by the Nyoongar Aboriginal community and for all Aboriginal people and their (few) white supporters between 1946 and 1960. The…

Dead Heart

(1997)

Drama | Nick Parsons

This gripping Australian drama contains similar themes as a western as it chronicles the unending struggle between Aboriginal people and ever-encroaching Europeans. Set in the arid red-rock desert west of Alice Springs, a region called Dead Heart…

Deadly

(1992)

Drama | Esben Storm

This tense and dramatic thriller deals frankly with the subject of Aboriginal deaths while in police custody. Deadly is set against a backdrop of simmering racial tension in a remote Australian outback town. Tony Bourke, a young street-wise cop,…

Dreaming Of Lords

(1988)

Documentary | Bob Ellis

Dreaming Of Lords is a film of the 1988 pilgrimage to the home of cricket, Lords in England, by 17 Aboriginal cricketers exactly 120 years after their predecessors in 1868 and pays tribute to that. Hosted by Aboriginal man Ernie Dingo it takes in…

Eye

(2010)

Documentary | Donna McCrum, Andy Canny

Eye is the story of award-winning Indigenous photographer Bindi Cole travelling from her Melbourne home to the far north of Australia. She's been invited by drag performer Foxxy Empire, the alter ego of Tiwi Islander Jason De Santis, to document…

From The Ashes

(2009)

Series | Dean Gibson

From the Ashes documents the incredible achievement of the 1868 Aboriginal first-ever cricket team through the eyes of a young team of Indigenous cricketers. It focuses on two players - Worrin Williams and Cameron Trask - and their journey to…

How The West Was Lost

(1987)

Documentary | David Noakes

On 1 May 1946, 800 Aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north-west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a carefully organised strike that was to last for at least three years, but never officially ended. The strike…

Contact

(2009)

Documentary | Martin Butler, Bentley Dean

While the British and Australian governments were trying to test space rockets, members of the nomadic Indigenous population in the Great Sandy Desert, south of Broome (Western Australia) were still living off the land, surviving in extreme…

In My Father's Country

(2008)

Documentary | 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…