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2004 (M) 81 min
The story of the Australian Taliban fighter, David Hicks: the film explores David Hicks's journey from stockman and rodeo rider to the legal limbo of Guantanamo Bay. more Click for pricing information »
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1983 (G) 30 min
A portrait of the only remaining priestess who lives permanently on Hatoma. She also runs the only remaining shop, thus providing for the islanders in both a spiritual and material sense. more Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 27 min
Alexo hasn’t spoken to his son for 15 years. It is only after serious illness that he begins to speak to him again. THE PRODIGAL SON is the moving story of a traditional Macedonian family’s ‘dilemma’ with having a gay son. more Click for pricing information »
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2011 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 59 min
Climate change is real and presents grave dangers for societies globally. This presentation by Professor Will Steffen, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, given at the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra on 10 March 2010, provides an easy to understand and comprehensive overview of the climate... more Click for pricing information »
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2001 (PG) 83 min
Seven children in Jerusalem and the story of a few who dared to meet. Though the children live only 20 minutes apart, they exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep. Rather than focusing on political events, the children featured offer a refreshing, human... more Click for pricing information »
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2004 (PG) 58 min
PUNISHED NOT PROTECTED is an educational documentary series in four parts (on one DVD) featuring the views of leading Australians and concerned citizens on the effects of government policy on asylum seekers and temporary protection visa holders. more Click for pricing information »
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1999 (M) 77 min
After her son, Kamal Bamadhaj, a New Zealand Malaysian student, was shot dead in the Dili massacre in East Timor in 1991, Helen Todd decided to pursue a law suit against the Indonesian general she believed was responsible. Her personal and political campaign for justice would eventually span five continents and four years. more Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 76 min
An Australian woman, Jocelyn Ortt-Saeed, lives with her husband Saeed in their home of many years in the Husain Sugar Mill, in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Two young people, Nawaz the cook and Mehnaz the maid, look after the house, and live nearby. Filmed over 18 months, this observational documentary captures the lives... more Click for pricing information »
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1997 (PG) 68 min
PYONGYANG DIARIES is director Solrun Hoaas' personal account of her encounter with the closed society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. While the official line in North Korea fosters an almost religious cult of personality, with an emphasis on uniformity, nationalism, and a sense of self-reliance, Hoaas' observations,... more Click for pricing information »
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1989 (G) 51 min
Jimmy Pike lives an extraordinary and idyllic life hunting and painting in a harsh and primitive environment in the Great Sandy Desert. He first learnt to paint whilst in prison serving a life sentence for murder. As a young boy, he had come out of the Great Sandy Desert and saw white men for the first time. Now he wants... more Click for pricing information »
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2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 62 min
QUICK BROWN FOX explores the notion of how memories define us and how Alzheimer’s can indiscriminately steal one’s identity and family history. more Click for pricing information »
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1984 (G) 50 min
Through the lives of three women, RED MATILDAS explores the social and political conditions in Australia during the Great Depression - conditions of massive unemployment, widespread malnutrition and growing militarism at home and abroad - that provoked many people to political activity. more Click for pricing information »
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2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min
An intimate autobiographical film that invites the audience into Harold Furber's vivid memories of being a desert kid stolen away to a tropical island. more Click for pricing information »
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2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 53 min
This story of the Bradshaw rock paintings or Gwion Gwion as they are known to the Aboriginal traditional owners, unfolds in the vast and beautiful Kimberley region of Australia’s far north west. more Click for pricing information »
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2008 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
Exploring the “Modernity Paradox”. Could we be the last generation of humans that live longer than our parents? Have we lost sight of how to care for our kids? more Click for pricing information »
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2008 (PG) 52 min
The story of Frances Daingangan, one of the stars of TEN CANOES, and her journey from traditional tribal life to the international red carpet. A film written and directed by Darlene Johnson, one of Australia’s leading Indigenous documentary filmmakers, acclaimed for GULPILIL – ONE RED BLOOD and STOLEN GENERATIONS. more Click for pricing information »
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1996 (PG) 95 min
In a small isolated Australian town, a car carrying four members of the local bowling club runs off the road, trapping the women inside. Maurie, a local pig farmer, is first on the scene and alerts the Emergency Services. However, the ambulance heads off in the wrong direction because there is confusion over whether the... more Click for pricing information »
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A screenplay by Alison Tilson * Currency press 1998 * Paperback * 100 pages * The original screenplay by Alison Tilson, for the highly successful feature film released nationally in 1998. more Click for pricing information »
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2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
Behind the story of a simple cup of tea is a tale of espionage and intrigue captured in a documentary by Melbourne filmmaker Diane Perelsztein. The cup that cheers has a complex, often dark history. The story of tea is a tale of politics, economics and spirituality, of espionage, art and the drug trade. more Click for pricing information »
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1986 (PG) 92 min
A passionate documentary about the controversial New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation (BLF). Filmmaker Pat Fiske, herself one of the first women members of the BLF, develops a portrait of this once-powerful union through interviews with former union members and officials, archival film, and television news coverage... more Click for pricing information »
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