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2009 (M) 90 min
Looking from afar, the Australian film industry appears glitzy and glamorous, robust and invincible. Into the Shadows challenges this notion and journeys beyond the glamour to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to the screen. more Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min
A journey into Iraq after the American invasion, as told by an Iraqi refugee returning to his homeland after 10 years in Australia. A film of raw power and immediacy, capturing images of Iraq that we will never see on the nightly news. more Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min
Palestinian elders share memories of the year they became refugees. Personal memories of the tumultuous days of Al Nakba, 'the catastrophe', May 15th 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. more Click for pricing information »
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1991 (G) 56 min
When Eliza Fraser was shipwrecked on Fraser Island in 1836, there were up to 3000 Aboriginal people living there — by 1905, there were perhaps a dozen left. Filmmaker Gillian Coote follows the route of early settlers north out of Sydney to Fraser Island to uncover the lies and secrets of Australia's settlement. more Click for pricing information »
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![IT'S A LONG ROAD BACK [from the AIATSIS Collection]](/images/small/7693.jpg) |
1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 13 min
The story of one woman’s struggle to regain her Aboriginality more Click for pricing information »
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1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 77 min
It's Elementary takes cameras into classrooms across the U.S. to look at one of today's most controversial issues - whether and how gay issues should be discussed in schools. more Click for pricing information »
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2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min
The story of Yvonne Margarula and the resistance of the Mirrar people to the loss of their land and their heritage because of mining operations in the Kakadu area. more Click for pricing information »
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1967 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 89 min
A legendary classic from Jean Rouch, one of the pivotal figures in the history of ethnographic film. An innovative blend of documentary and fiction, telling the story of three young men who leave their rural homeland and trek to the coast to seek adventure and fortune in the cities of Ghana. more Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 49 min
An Arab-Australian comedy based on the true-life stories of young people growing up in the tough Western suburbs of Sydney. more Click for pricing information »
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(M) 48 min
At the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, Jane Campion made an unprecedented debut. The films were PEEL, A GIRL'S OWN STORY and PASSIONLESS MOMENTS. The three were made while she was a student at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. more Click for pricing information »
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 25 min
Welcome to Jarlmadangah – where we go well off the beaten track! Situated in the West Kimberleys, Jarlmadangah is a remote community often hailed as ‘a model’ for its many social and cultural achievements. more Click for pricing information »
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2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 50 min
KABBARLI explores the extraordinary life of Daisy Bates and her passionate involvement with Australian Aborigines. The film interweaves fiction and biography, history and memory to explore Daisy Bates' life - a dramatic map of the colonial imagination, and a portrait of a remarkable and wily old woman. more Click for pricing information »
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1979 (G) 48 min
This film is about the music, and especially the singing, of the Trobriand Islanders. It includes songs and incantations for garden fertility, harvest chants and songs of love and enticement. more Click for pricing information »
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2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 54 min
This third film in the Doon School Quintet follows the main protagonist of With Morning Hearts into the next phase of his life in Jaipur House, one of the five main houses of the school. more Click for pricing information »
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2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 21 min
Stories of Karlu Karlu and its handback by the government to the traditional owners. more Click for pricing information »
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1989 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 46 min
Re-release of an important documentary that explores little known experiments in chemical warfare conducted in Australia from 1942 to 1945. more Click for pricing information »
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2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min
Growing up in a small town divided by mining disputes isn’t easy, but for Aboriginal teenager Jacinta Haseldine it’s a stark contrast to her grandmother’s life at the same age growing up on a mission. more Click for pricing information »
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2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min
The story of the Bunuba people’s efforts to keep alive the story of Jandamarra and his war against white settlers in the 1880s in the Kimberleys, as a source of inspiration for Aboriginal people and all Australians. more Click for pricing information »
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2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min
The extraordinary story of a group of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korean spies in the 1970s and 1980s and the subsequent struggle of their families to have their loved ones returned. more Click for pricing information »
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1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 55 min
A filmmaker with three films to his name, including one huge hit and one enormous flop, attempts to get his career back on track and direct a stylish thriller in this behind-the-scenes documentary by costume designer Lizzy Gardiner. more Click for pricing information »
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