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Julie Nimmo
The Intervention: Katherine, NT traces over one year the impact of the emergency intervention which the federal government started in the Northern Territory in 2007 in response to a report about widespread child abuse.
The movie adopts a…
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Jeremy Thomson
The Kimberley Man is a story of Western Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentarian, Ernie Bridge.
Told from the unique perspective of Ernie’s grandson Jeremy Thomson (who also directs the film) this documentary is a revealing look at Ernie’s…
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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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Warwick Thornton
This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
Norman is a “noodler” – someone who sifts through the mining scrap-heaps…
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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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Darlene Johnson
In the early '70s, Aboriginal political activism took to the stage with Australia's first all-Aboriginal theatre company, the National Black Theatre in inner-city Redfern.
Against the backdrop of street protests, a group of actors and activists…
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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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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…
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Naina Sen
Central Australia’s answer to The Buena Vista Social Club, The Song Keepers tells the uplifting story of women from the world’s oldest culture preserving some of the world’s oldest sacred songs, connecting Germany to Aboriginal history in the…
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Tony Krawitz
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, a tropical paradise in Australia's Far North. It is the story of Cameron Doomadgee, who in 2004 was arrested for swearing at Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley - the 'tall man' of the title. 45 minutes later,…
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Frances Calvert
The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s ‘other’ Indigenous minority, Melanesians living on islands north of Cape York and now scattered all across Australia.
This is a culture rich in customs, myth and legends. The Tombstone Opening is a joyous…
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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…
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John Goldschmidt
In 1973 British filmmaker John Goldschmidt travelled to Australia to make a film for Associated Television UK. Having supported the American Civil Rights movement in the United States and People’s Democracy in Northern Ireland, Goldschmidt arrived…
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Wendy Friar, Richard Friar
Think About It is a documentary that explores peace activism and the roles that individuals can play to initiate social change
Interviewees include high profile activists, politicians, ex-public servants and cultural groups:an Indigenous actor…
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Michae Cordell
From urban communities to remote desert outposts, Australian Football League (AFL) is both an obsession and a tantalising escape route from boredom and poverty for many Indigenous teenagers. To run onto the field as an AFL player is to achieve…
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David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
Three Horsemen is one of several films that the MacDougalls made in and around Aurukun in the far north of Queensland. It is a deeply moving portrait of 3 generations of Aboriginal stockmen at Ti-Tree station, 80km south of Aurukun, a former cattle…
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Three Sisters: Women of High Degree is the result of 7 years of collaboration and filmed conversations between three Yimardoowarra Marninil, Nyikina women from the Fitzroy River, Lucy Marshall, Jeannie Wabi, and Anne Poelina, and French-Australian…