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BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES
1990 (PG) 113 min
The 1960s alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War. more
BEYOND EL ROCCO
1990 (PG) 100 min
The story of the Australian modern jazz movement since the 1950s. Includes rare performance footage of Brian Brown, Stewie Peers and others, and interviews with today's jazz greats like Don Burrows and Paul Grabowsky. more
BEYOND THE DREAMTIME
1994 (G) 54 min
BEYOND THE DREAMTIME is a film of visual beauty, bringing to life the haunting imagery of dozens of Ainslie Roberts' major works, weaving them into the artist's personal life and illuminating his love of the land. more
BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL
2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL takes us on a surprising often humorous journey behind the lavish facade of Indian aristocracy into the lives of two men who have opened up their palaces to tourism, selling the 'royal experience'. But can they save their inheritances without sacrificing their dignity? more
BIG ALL AT ONCE
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
What is it like to be leaving school and suddenly having to make crucial choices about your life? This documentary intimately follows three different 18-year-olds, as they are spat out of high school and struggle to piece together their adult identities in their own way. more
BIG BAD LOVE
2016 (M) 26 min
After discovering her best friend was violently abused by her partner, stand-up comedian Becky Lucas wants to know how you can spot an abusive relationship and what you can do about it. more
BIG BOSS
2012 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 25 min
The story of 95-year-old Baymarrwangga, affectionately known as "Big Boss", and her commitment to pass on the Yan-nhangu language and traditional knowledge to future generations on Murrungga Island at the top end of Arnhem Land. more
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (NIDF series 5)
2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min
A heart-rending insight into the disease of end-stage renal failure in remote and rural communities. more
BLACKBIRD
2016 (PG) 13 min
Blackbird is a short narrative drama which sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia's notorious "blackbirding" era when some 60,000 Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia, often by force and kidnapping, between 1863 and 1904 to work on sugar cane farms of Queensland. more
BODYWORK
1989 (PG) 51 min
Morticians, embalmers and grave-diggers talk intimately about each stage of the journey from death to dirt, from expiry to exit. In a matter-of-fact, down-to-earth way, these ordinary people tell us all we ever wanted to know about dead bodies but which our conditioning and socialisation prevented us from asking. more
BOOMERANG TODAY (KARLI JALANGU) [from the CAAMA Collection]
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
Re-living ancient traditions in the modern world. A film by David Tranter and Allan Collins. more
BOOT CAKE, THE
2009 (G) 74 min
A small desert town on the edge of western India's famous salt plains is the unlikely home of the world's largest population of Charlie Chaplin impersonators. The Charlie Circle of Adipur embraces businessmen, shopkeepers, a doctor who prescribes Chaplin movies for medicinal purposes, teachers, engineers, students and... more
BORDER POLITICS
2018 (PG) 90 min
In this film, leading Human Rights barrister, Julian Burnside AO, deconstructs harsh asylum seeker policies around the world, arguing that failure in political leadership is compromising human rights and destroying democratic principles in the West. more
BORN TO SHOP
1991 (G) 53 min
Whether you love shopping or hate it, whether your favourite shop is David Jones, the local bookshop, an open-air market or a hardware store, BORN TO SHOP will make you think about an ordinary activity in a new way. This film does not induce guilt! more
BREAD AND DRIPPING
1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 17 min
Restored from original film materials: a classic documentary from 1981, telling women's stories of the Great Depression in the 1930s in Australia. more
BREATHING LIFE INTO BOODJA
2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 48 min
A galvanising portrayal of large-scale environmental achievements being made by community groups, Aboriginal communities and rangers, conservation landholders, farmers and scientists, as they work together to restore and heal land around the Porongurup and Stirling Ranges in south-western Australia. more
BUDDHA'S FORGOTTEN NUNS, THE
2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min
This documentary explores a little-known truth about Buddhism – that women cannot be fully ordained in the same way as men. The film-maker, Wiriya Sati, spent the past 5 years traveling to monasteries in Thailand, UK, USA and Australia, to tell the story of women fighting to regain their place as female monks, or Bhikkhunis,... more
BULLYING CULTURES
2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 65 min
Professor Valerie Braithwaite, renowned internationally for her studies of work-place and school-yard bullying, examines the social and psychological dynamics that contribute to a bullying culture and what must happen to break that culture. more
BURNSIDE CONVERSATIONS, THE
2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 115 min
16 conversations, 1 topic: Human rights. In dynamic conversations with human rights barrister, Julian Burnside QC, key global thinkers reveal personal perspectives on current threats to human rights in the West, expanding on ideas raised in the film BORDER POLITICS (also available from Ronin Films). more
BUSH TOYS [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 23 min
Bush Toys is a whimsical and historical journey into the art of Bush Toy making in the Central Desert of Australia. more
BUSINESS BEHIND BARS
2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 104 min
This documentary reports on the privatisation of prisons in the USA and Australia. The film looks at the economics of allowing private companies to run jails and investigates the social and moral aspects of this new approach. Government representatives, legal officers, prisoners and guards are interviewed. more
BUT WE ARE STRONG
2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 30 min
BUT WE ARE STRONG tells the untold stories of five young women who survived Sierra Leone's civil war. This documentary series highlights these young women's strength and their resilience to the horror and atrocities that took place in their home. more
BY COMPASS AND QURAN
2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min
Retracing the steps of the Afghan cameleers, exploring their amazing lives in the Australian outback, and the discrimination and alienation that many endured in a white Australia. more
CAR CRASH
1995 (M) 51 min
Twenty-six people speak to camera about their emotional relationship with their car and their experience of a car accident. The interviews are intercut with stylised close-ups of road signs, test dummy crashes and atmospheric photography. The music track gives the documentary a moody ambience. more
CARNIVAL, THE
2023 (MA) 85 min
The Bells have been hauling their convoy of carnival rides and workers across Australia for six generations. Now, facing shutdowns and bushfires, and a dwindling economy – the family battles to keep their show, and ultimately their legacy, alive. more
CHIFLEYS OF BUSBY STREET, THE
2008 (G) 72 min
The Chifleys of Busby Street is an eloquent portrait of Australia's best-loved Prime Minister Ben Chifley, his wife Elizabeth, and their cherished spirit kept alive in Bathurst for the five decades since his death. Friends and colleagues share anecdotes and memories of the Chifleys in this charming documentary. more
CHILD'S EYE, THE
2018 (G) 147 min
AVAILABLE ONLY ON DVD! Through a series of workshops across India, documentary filmmaker David MacDougall sought to empower young filmmakers to engage directly with the world around them, using cameras to interrogate and explore what they saw, from their own unique child's perspective. more
CHINA'S 3 DREAMS
2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 84 min
Confused by the expurgated history they learned at school and the silence of their grandparents, China's young people are making their way with new dreams for the future - to make their country rich and powerful, and to find a better life and meaningful existence for themselves. more
CLOSE TO THE BONE
2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 28 min
In this remarkable film, First Nations people and European settler descendants come together to confront legacies of violence from Australia's pastoral frontier. Can the scars of past atrocities be reconciled and healed through the act of truth-telling? more
COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER
1994 (PG) 44 min
A loving and optimistic film which portrays a mother and daughter's battle with Alzheimer's Disease. more
CREATING A MONSTER
2017 (PG) 20 min
A documentary by Gena Lida Riess exploring the ethics of reality television, how it is constructed and consumed, and the psychological impact that it has on participants. more
CROOK HAT & CAMPHOO [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
An outstanding documentary about the survival of traditional skills in Aboriginal culture. more
CROOKHAT AND THE KULUNADA [from the CAAMA Collection]
2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 23 min
Stories of the water serpent, Kulunada, which inhabits a permanent waterhole in the arid desert country of central Australia. more
DARK TO LIGHT
2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 25 min
Stretched to their limits, Burma's eye surgeons are trying their best - but for every one person's sight that is saved, three others go blind. more
DEALING WITH THE DEMON
1996 (MA) 165 min
The story of the opiates in three chapters which gives a powerful insight into societies' epic struggle with all drugs of addiction. more
DO NOT RESUSCITATE
2006 (M) 104 min
A filmmaker's journey to understand the mystery of death as three characters make choices regarding their own mortality - Steve, Mary and Judy want the right to choose when and how to die. more
DOGS OF DEMOCRACY
2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 58 min
WINNER! Spirit of Activism Award, Nevada Women's Film Festival, March 2017. WINNER! Best Documentary Feature, 2017 Imagine This: Women's International Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York! A documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them. In the on-going financial crises of the 2010s,... more
DOON SCHOOL CHRONICLES
2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 140 min
Filmed over a two-year period by David MacDougall, this film looks at the life of Indian middle-class boys as they experience the effects of institutional, national, and global pressures during the transitional years from childhood to adulthood. more
DRAMA SCHOOL
2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 270 min
A NINE PART SERIES ON LIFE INSIDE AUSTRALIA'S MOST FAMOUS ACTING SCHOOL - NIDA [National Institute of Dramatic Arts]. more