Documentary | Trevor Almeida

My Home The Block is an intimate portrait of 83-year-old Aboriginal Elder Joyce Ingram, resident of the first inner-city land grant allocated to the Indigenous people that would become a symbol for Indigenous land rights—the infamous Redfern Block…

Drama | Phillip Noyce

This movie's topic is rarely brought to the public with such intensity: The Stolen Generations. Introductory text guides you into the proper mood, however, if you don't know what a "half-caste" is you'll have to wait a while before it is explained.…

Documentary | Kim Mavromatis

Sacred Ground tells the story how Quenten Agius and his nephew Chris discover human skeletal remains in the middle of a multi-million dollar housing development - is it a murder or is it an ancestor? Sacred Ground captures the inside story of…

Drama | Peter Carstairs

September is set in the Australian wheat belt in 1968 where two young boys who share a passion for boxing are firm friends. Sixteen-year-old Ed is the son of a white wheat farmer whilst Paddy is the son of an Aboriginal farm hand who works on the…

Romance | Mojgan Khadem

Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, Seremades tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game. Raised initially in an Aboriginal community, Jila, on the death…

Adventure | Dick Ross

Shadow of the Boomerang is the story of an American brother and sister, Bob and Kathy Prince, who move to Australia to manage a cattle station owned by their father. Bob has a racist attitude and always has a negative word to add. Kathy on the other…

Documentary | David Batty

In 1907, Mother Antonio O'Brien and nine young Sisters of St John of God set sail from Perth on a journey to Broome on the remote Kimberley coast, in the far north west of Australia. This epic story of Irish and Australian nuns is set against the…

Drama | Henri Safran

Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. He lives with his…

Drama | Rolf de Heer

Ten Canoes is different in many ways. Forget Hollywood, action or predictable stories, even forget fast-paced entertainment. Ten Canoes is a quiet film, a film about how Aboriginal life has been 1,000 years ago and maybe even before that. Be also…

Drama | Fred Schepisi

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the Indigenous people of Australia. Jimmie is a half-white, half-Indigenous young man raised by a Methodist minister. Feeling outcast among the Aboriginal people,…

Drama | Catriona McKenzie

Series 1: 2 DVDs, 1 CD, 312 min (6 episodes) Series 2: 2 DVDs, 312 min (6 episodes) Drew Ellis is the latest lawyer to join the chaotic and challenging world of the Kimberley Circuit Court. The Circuit follows a magistrate and an entourage of…

Drama | 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.…

Suspense | 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…

Drama | 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,…

Documentary | Rolf de Heer

In 1922, the tracker has the job of tracking an Aboriginal suspected of murdering a white woman and leads a police office (the fanatic), his offsider (the follower) and a seconded assistant (the veteran) across the outback. The journey descends…

Documentary | Steve Jodrell

Ernie Dingo delivers an outstanding portrayal of Robert Tudawali, the first Aboriginal film star, whose lead role in Australia's first colour film, Jedda, is iconic in Australian cinema. The film traces the life of Tudawali from the moment he's…

Compilation | David Vadiveloo

Us Mob was Australia's first Indigenous children's television series and the world's first Indigenous children's interactive web and film series stretching over seven episodes. Us Mob transports young people from around the globe to the little…

Documentary | 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…