Law

Issues relating to legal history, the professional life of lawyers, and the working of judicial institutions and processes in Australia and overseas, including specific case studies involving Australian and international law.

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	AFTER MABO » 1997 (M) 84 min An Australian documentary classic that examines the political controversy surrounding native title and the Federal Government's proposed amendments to the Native Title Act (1993). AFTER MABO tackles many of the reconciliation issues that are still relevant today. more » Click for pricing information »
	BELOW THE WIND » 1994 (G) 55 min BELOW THE WIND looks at the complexities of the trade relationship between Australia and Indonesia and the impact international border agreements have had on the maritime traditions of the fishing peoples of the Indonesian archipelago. more » Click for pricing information »
	FACING THE DEMONS » 1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 57 min The story of a journey to bring the family and friends of a murdered boy together in one room with those convicted of his killing. more » Click for pricing information »
	FINDING PLACE [from the CAAMA Collection] » 2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min A film about manhood and the problems of living in two cultures. more » Click for pricing information »
	FOR THE DEFENCE » 1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 55 min Explores the Victorian criminal justice system via the experiences of three criminal defence lawyers. Their journey takes us from interview room to supreme court, and into their own lives as they strive to maintain the principles of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence in an increasingly pressurised legal system. more » Click for pricing information »
	JUST PUNISHMENT » 2006 (M) 54 min On 2 December 2005 Van Nguyen, a 24-year-old Australian, was hanged by the state of Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin. Van was the first Australian to be executed in many years. Just Punishment tells the story behind the media face of Van Nguyen and the remarkable journey to try to keep him alive. more » Click for pricing information »
	LAND BILONG ISLANDERS » 1989 (G) 52 min LAND BILONG ISLANDERS tells the story of what has become known as the 'Mabo Case'. It contains rare interviews with the late Eddie Mabo, James Rice, Father Dave Passi and others involved in this historic legal drama. Together they challenged the idea that prior to European settlement, Australia was a land belonging to no-one, a 'terra nullius'. more » Click for pricing information »
	LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY » 2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 94 min This documentary studies South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid's reign. more » Click for pricing information »
	PLEAD GUILTY, GET A BOND » 1991 (G) 30 min A young Aboriginal woman has been charged with wounding her husband during a domestic argument. It is expected by all concerned that she will simply plead guilty and receive a good behaviour bond. The inexperienced legal aid lawyer is outraged by this expectations and persuades Amy to plead her innocence. more » Click for pricing information »
	PUNISHED NOT PROTECTED » 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 »
	PUNITIVE DAMAGE » 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 »
	SAVE OUR SONS (S.O.S.) » 1996 (PG) 54 min This film is about the Save Our Sons Movement of Victoria - a group of women formed in the sixties to protest against the Vietnam War. Energetic and informative, an extraordinary episode in the anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War struggles of the 1960s. more » Click for pricing information »
	WILLABERTA JACK [from the CAAMA Collection] » 2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min He survived an attempted killing. He survived an unjust legal system. But can he survive white “payback”? A true story from the Northern Territory, 1929. more » Click for pricing information »

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