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Brendan Fletcher
TJ is a mad bastard, a hard-edged, urban street warrior Aboriginal man who's sick of scraping out an existence in the city. His estranged 13-year-old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too.
After being turned away from his mother's…
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Kim McKenzie
Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the Festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and…
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Richard Jasek
Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of creative trailblazing, as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for this important $100,000 prize.
In a story that spans the globe from Europe to…
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Curtis Levy
Gustav Malbangka and his family lived at Hermansburg Mission in central Australia. Like many other people, they wish to leave the social problems of the congested settlement behind them and return to their traditional land at Gilbert Springs.…
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John Honey
Australia, 1830. Edward Waterman (Phillip Hinton) and his family arrive in a remote part of Tasmania (known at the time as Van Diemen's Land). Waterman is pressured into helping British colonial forces carry out the Black Line – enforced removal of…
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Jessie Boylan
Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia.
Maralinga was subject to 12 major nuclear…
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Craig Japangardi Williams, Timothy Japangardi Marshall
Marluku Wirlinyi is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again.
A group of old Warlpiri men transport us back to a time of rarely heard history and we follow their journey into the present.…
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Tyson Mowarin
This 2.5-hour film shows Aboriginal artist Allery Sandy creating a mesmerising dot-work painting of the Pilbara, the region in north Western Australia she calls home. Marni translates to 'marking' in Yindjibarndi.Filmed over three weeks as she…
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Ann McGrath, Andrew Pike
Lake Mungo is an ancient Pleistocene lake-bed in south-western New South Wales, and is one of the world’s richest archaeological sites.
Message From Mungo focuses on the interface over the last 40 years between the scientists on one hand, and, on…
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Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
When Miro returns from WWII he finds his land taken, his daughter stolen, his people relocated (a fate many Aboriginal soldiers returning from service faced) and his service record treated with contempt.
But the New Guinea battlefield has taught…
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Imogen Thomas
Mixed Bag tells the story of a city woman who has ventured out west to be witness to the birth of her grandchild. On the last leg of her journey distraction sets in and she hits a kangaroo. She has to pull into the next township which happens to be…
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Curtis Levy
Because of work commitments and the influence of Christian missions, traditional mourning ceremonies among the Tiwi people of Melville Island were becoming rare at the time of making this film (1974). The full, elaborate ceremony, called the…
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Stuart McDonald
Mr Electric is set in outback Queensland in 1956, in a time when people still used kerosene lamps for light.
Bill, an Aboriginal electrician employed to electrify the countryside, has no place, either in the white world in which he grew up, or in…
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Hart Cohen
T.G.H. (Theodor George Henry, or Ted) Strehlow was one of Australia's most eminent and controversial anthropologists. This fascinating documentary traces his life from his childhood at Hermannsburg (NT) as the son of Lutheran missionaries, to his…
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Leonie Kelly
On the cusp of his initiation, a young Aboriginal boy, Mungo, has a chance encounter with James Ashton and his travelling circus in 1853.
Mungo is instantly spellbound by the magic of the circus, but is torn between the two worlds.
Does he do…
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Rhys Graham, Natasha Gadd
Murundak - Songs of freedom is a feature documentary that journeys into the heart of Aboriginal protest music following The Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of…
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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…
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Molly Reynolds
Early in 2017, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds. And he continues to do so with probably his last great…
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My Spirit is Black is a production of the ABC about Matthew Doyle's discovery of his Aboriginality when he was 11. He is a descendant of the Muruwari people from the Lightning Ridge area of NSW and grew up in Southern Sydney on Dharawal land.
This…
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Brit Arthur
In December 2005 Britt Arthur heard the news that her Uncle Robert was dead. No-one in the Arthur family had spoken about Robert in the preceding 30 years. He was the black sheep of the family, he would argue, he owed everyone money and before he…
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Tim Mummery
Namarali charts artist Donny (Yorna) Woolagoodja's quest to rekindle deep connections with his traditional ancestral culture.
Yorna's spiritual beliefs revolve around the wandjina: creator beings whose images adorn the caves and rock ledges…