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Ivo Burum
Satellite Dreaming is of considerable historic importance. It narrates the emergence of Aboriginal broadcast media in Australia, and discusses its role in maintaining Aboriginal languages and culture.
In the early 1980s, the federal government…
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Steven McGregor
During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian government. They were supposedly employed as servants, but with total…
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Erica Glynn
She Who Must Be Loved is a documentary that tells the epic life story of Alfreda Glynn, directed by her daughter Erica Glynn.
Born under the Aboriginal Protection policies, in the early 1970s she channelled her formidable energy into establishing…
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Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen interviewed four then teenagers in small towns in north western NSW over a period of ten years - in 1995, 2000 and 2005. This feature documentary follows Willy, Cindy, Danielle and Ben through a vital period in their lives, the transition…
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Ivan Sen
Shifting Shelter is a groundbreaking 15-year documentary study of the lives of four young Aboriginal people in rural north-west New South Wales.
For 15 years Ivan Sen has documenting the lives of four young people in north west NSW. Cindy Peterson,…
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Rima Tamou
Sing About This Country follows country music star Troy Cassar-Daley and the Black Image Band (brothers Cliff Harrigan, Pando Harrigan, Dylan Harrigan and Porky Harrigan) as they tour and perform in communities throughout Queensland’s Cape York…
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Janet Isaac
The documentary Sister, If You Only Knew opens with welfare officers ransacking an Aboriginal home while a female voice explains "they just came and took them away from us".
Sister, If You Only Knew takes as its theme the pressures of life…
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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…
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John J. McGowan
Documentary profiles of six contemporary Aboriginal people who may be seen as forming a bridge between traditional Aboriginal culture and European culture in Australia.
Six Australians reveals a great deal about the issues affecting all Aboriginal…
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Songlines on Screen is a special collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV that presents 10 short films from the remote regions of Western, Northern and Central Australia. These films represent Aboriginal people's ongoing connection to land…
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Curtis Levy
Sons of Namatjira examines the relationship between a community of Aboriginal artists and the outside world.
Keith Namatjira is the son of the celebrated artist Albert Namatjira, and emulates his father’s distinctive style. He lives with his family…
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Kim McKenzie
Archaeologist Rhys Jones investigates unusual stone spear-points found in ancient sites in the Kakadu National Park, and which seem to have been traded south from Arnhem Land. Jones hears of two Elders in eastern Arnhem Land who remember how to make…
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Barbara Glowczewski-Barker, Wayne Barker
"Bayini is a great spiritual woman she started to talk, to dance, to sing. She made everything around, all that comes from history. The vision and the dream she was seeing is the Anchor".
Arnhem Land Aboriginal (Yolngu) narratives regarding the…
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Allan Collins ACS
Spirit Stones is both a contemporary and historically stylised, one-hour documentary of Nyoongar elders giving their account of mysterious stones that fell on Aboriginal (Noongar) camps in rural Western Australia.
In the 1940s and 1950s, stone…
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Christopher McLeod
Indigenous communities around the world and in the U.S. resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment.
In this 4-part documentary series, native people…
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Eleanor Gilbert
When the ancient wisdoms of the universe held by the oldest culture on earth meet modern astrophysics a new concept is born – cultural astronomy.
Increasingly Aboriginal people in Australia are being recognised as the first astronomers.
In the…
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Molly Reynolds
A poetic celebration of country and culture, Still Our Country documents the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory. Originally conceived as an online installation, this evocative carnival of images and…
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John Harvey
In 1972, the planting of a beach umbrella by young Aboriginal activists in the lawns opposite Parliament House sparked a revelation across the country.
Sitting strong and proud on Ngunnawal country, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy soon became a marker…
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Katrina Channells
When Michael Eather left Tasmania at twenty-one years of age and followed his sister to a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, he had no idea that his life would change very dramatically and forever.
As a young artist on the…
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Darlene Johnson
Stolen Generations is told by the survivors of the Stolen Generations, a policy of Australia which began in the 20th century and lasted until the 1970s.
You will hear from people, who, as children, were brutally removed from their families, rounded…
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Mark Anderson
Set in the township of Ngukurr, a remote Aboriginal town in south-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Stone Country follows the stories of several residents – from the local DJ to respected community elders.
Through these stories, we come face to…