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COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER

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

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CONISTON MUSTER [from the AIATSIS Collection]

CONISTON MUSTER [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1972 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 28 min

A classic documentary about the annual muster on Coniston cattle station, north-west of Alice Springs, and its Aboriginal head stockman, Coniston Johnny, who narrates much of the film. more

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COOLBAROO CLUB, THE

COOLBAROO CLUB, THE

1996 (G) 55 min

A portrait of the Coolbaroo Club, an Aboriginal-run dance club which operated in Perth from 1946 - 1960. The film is delivered via the memories of those involved, stills, archive and extensive dramatisation. An award-winning documentary on post-war race relations in Australia. more

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CROCODILE DREAMING

CROCODILE DREAMING

2006 (M) 27 min

A stone holding the stories and songs of the ancestors has been stolen from its proper location and subsequently causes the death of two children. It must be found and brought back to restore the right order. The local Aboriginal mob cannot carry out this task alone and calls for Burrimmilla (David Gulpilil). more

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CROOK HAT & CAMPHOO [from the CAAMA Collection]

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

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CROOKHAT AND THE KULUNADA [from the CAAMA Collection]

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

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CROSSING THE LINE

CROSSING THE LINE

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min

When two young, non-Indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their professional precepts and personal ideas are deeply challenged. more

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DANCE ON YOUR LAND

DANCE ON YOUR LAND

1991 (G) 28 min

In 1988 fifty Aboriginal people from Mornington Island and Borroloola made an 8000km journey to 15 communities in the remote Kimberley Region of WA over a 5 week period. The aim of the journey was to strengthen Aboriginal cultural identity through performances of dance and song which carry the stories that are unique to... more

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DARK TO LIGHT

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

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DEADLY YARNS

DEADLY YARNS

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 40 min

5 short films made by Indigenous West Australian filmmakers for the ABC's Message Stick series. more

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DEADLY YARNS 2

DEADLY YARNS 2

2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 33 min

A series of 5 short films made by Indigenous Western Australian filmmakers. [includes Special Features: A behind-the scenes documentary on each film] more

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DEADLY YARNS 3

DEADLY YARNS 3

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min

5 short films made by Indigenous Western Australian filmmakers for ABC TV's Message Stick series. [includes Special Features: A behind-the scenes documentary on each film] more

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DEALING WITH THE DEMON

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

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DEMON FAULT

DEMON FAULT

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min

Miners, environmentalists, police, landowners and Aboriginal people come head to head in a deadly serious yet crazy battle over a gold mine, located in a sacred and ecologically sensitive region of Australia's fast-disappearing wilderness. more

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DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 27 min

A light-hearted look at the Lesbian community of Alice Springs in central Australia. more

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DROVER'S BOY, THE

DROVER'S BOY, THE

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 11 min

This 'hybrid' blend of music, documentary and drama is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. Based on a ballad by Ted Egan, the film pays tribute to the role of Aboriginal women in the pastoral history of frontier Australia. more

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DYING SHAME, A

DYING SHAME, A

1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min

A Dying Shame tells personal stories of families and individuals within the remote Aboriginal community in Borroloola and the struggles of these people and their families who have to cope with poor health and an ineffectual health system. more

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EMILY IN JAPAN - The Making of An Exhibition

EMILY IN JAPAN - The Making of An Exhibition

2009 (PG) 82 min

Behind the scenes of the blockbuster exhibition of paintings by the Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye which toured Japan attracting record crowds. more

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ETCHED IN BONE

ETCHED IN BONE

2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 73 min

When the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC agrees to repatriate stolen human bones from northern Australia, an Aboriginal elder creates a ceremony that restores his ancestors' spirits to their homeland. more

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EXILE AND THE KINGDOM

EXILE AND THE KINGDOM

1993 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 110 min

The experiences of a community of Aboriginal people from pre-colonial times to the 1990s. The re-release of the award-winning feature documentary from 1993, made with the YINDJIBARNDI, NGARLUMA, BANYJIMA and GURRAMA people of Roebourne, Western Australia. more

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FAMILIAR PLACES [from the AIATSIS Collection]

FAMILIAR PLACES [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1980 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min

Mapping traditional clan country in north Queensland. more

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FINAL INSULT

FINAL INSULT

1997 (PG) 55 min

A challenging film about people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities - a powerful exploration of the human reaction to the accumulated chemical pollutants in our environment. more

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FINDING PLACE [from the CAAMA Collection]

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

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FIRST CITIZEN: ALBERT NAMATJIRA

FIRST CITIZEN: ALBERT NAMATJIRA

1989 (G) 54 min

Albert Namatjira was the first Aboriginal artist to be recognised by white Australians. He was torn between two worlds simply because he had the wisdom to recognise both. Two cultures, two laws. The feting and fawning of the city glitterati, ultimately led to his tragic decline and death. more

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FIRST MISSION

FIRST MISSION

1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 54 min

Each year the Australian Red Cross recruits new people for its overseas postings. This film follows three successful applicants from their training in Melbourne to their first missions in Africa – a refugee camp in Western Tanzania, a field hospital in north Kenya, dealing with wounded from the war in the Sudan. more

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FLOATING ... LIKE WIND BLOW 'EM ABOUT

FLOATING ... LIKE WIND BLOW 'EM ABOUT

1975 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 58 min

A film by Michael Edols. Available on DVD and Vimeo-on-Demand as part of the ASPECTS OF A LIFE collection. more

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FLYING BOOMERANGS, THE

FLYING BOOMERANGS, THE

2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min

24 Indigenous teenagers embark on the first Aussie Rules tour of South Africa. more

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FOLLOWING THE FENCELINE

FOLLOWING THE FENCELINE

1996 (PG) 50 min

A documentary about breast cancer and an innovative approach to public awareness taken by 14 remarkable women. more

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FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE

FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE

1992 (PG) 73 min

A portrait of Professor Fred Hollows whose eye health programs in Eritrea, Nepal and outback Australia offer a model for Third World countries where millions suffer from curable blindness. A bold, wry, intimate and ultimately very moving tribute to an extraordinary life more

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FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A History of Women and Work in Australia

FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A History of Women and Work in Australia

1983 (G) 107 min

DIGITALLY RESTORED! An investigation and celebration of women's work from white settlement to the present, a story told by Aboriginal and migrant women, convict women and today's women. more

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FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A pictorial history of women and work in Australia  (book)

FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A pictorial history of women and work in Australia (book)

(G)

A book by Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver & Jeni Thornley * Penguin Books 1983 * Paperback (large) * 186 pages A telling and passionate tribute to the unsung labors of Australian women, past and present. more

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FOUNDATION, The (NIDF series 5)

FOUNDATION, The (NIDF series 5)

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min

A documentary that intercuts interviews with historical footage to tell the history of The Foundation of Aboriginal Affairs, an organisation significant in the push for the 1967 referendum in which Aboriginal peoples were given the vote. more

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FULL CIRCLE [from the AIATSIS Collection]

FULL CIRCLE [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1987 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 20 min

A story of Aboriginal stockmen at Robinson River Station on traditional Garawa land, in the Northern Territory. more

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GAMARADA

GAMARADA

2012 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 25 min

A film about a program in Redfern, in inner Sydney, that uses a variety of healing approaches to help Aboriginal men break the cycle of incarceration and addiction and to regain their Aboriginal heritage and identity. more

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GENOCIDE IN THE WILDFLOWER STATE

GENOCIDE IN THE WILDFLOWER STATE

2024 (M) 58 min

An intensively researched documentary which describes a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in 20th century Western Australia. more

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GEOFF DIXON - PORTRAITS OF US

GEOFF DIXON - PORTRAITS OF US

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 82 min

An intimate portrait of the life and work of iconoclastic New Zealand artist Geoff Dixon. more

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GOLDEN CORD, THE

GOLDEN CORD, THE

1996 (G) 55 min

THE GOLDEN CORD looks beyond the fascinating detail of the refined technical skills required by the art of batik, to aspects of the vivid spiritual and social traditions of Java and Aboriginal Australia: two distinct but strangely parallel contemporary cultures resting on timeless foundations. more

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GOOD-BYE OLD MAN [from the AIATSIS Collection]

GOOD-BYE OLD MAN [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1977 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 66 min

A Tiwi Island Bereavement Ceremony. more

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GREEN BUSH [from the CAAMA Collection]

GREEN BUSH [from the CAAMA Collection]

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: MA) 26 min

NOW DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! An Indigenous radio DJ does the nightshift at a remote community radio station, and must negotiate nightly dramas while still spinning the music. A film by Warwick Thornton. more

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GREEN CHAIN, THE

GREEN CHAIN, THE

2011 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min

For 30 years, a Maori community fights for truth and justice after industrial chemical poisoning afflicts its land and people. In the process, many Maori workers affected by the poison learn new skills of leadership and become powerful spokespeople for their cause. more

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GULPILIL

GULPILIL

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 56 min

A portrait of the legendary Australian actor - David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu. more

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GURINDJI JOURNEY (book)

GURINDJI JOURNEY (book)

(G)

This compelling book by the young Japanese historian, Dr Minory Hokari, published in English posthumously, is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into Indigenous Australian culture. Part memoir, part history, part theory, the book is the story of Hokari's discovery of Gurindji modes of history and historical... more

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HABITS OF NEW NORCIA, THE

HABITS OF NEW NORCIA, THE

2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min

Re-release of a remarkable documentary from 2000: the story of the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia, in Western Australia. Now a popular tourist destination north of Perth, the Mission holds harsh memories for the former Aboriginal "inmates" who were placed there during the 1920s through to the 1960s. more

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HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES

HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES

1989 (PG) 55 min

This remarkable award-winning documentary by the late Rosalind Gillespie (filmmaker and Registered Nurse) traces the role of nurses from pre-industrial times to the modern era. more

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HANGING AUSTRALIA

HANGING AUSTRALIA

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 49 min

A major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, "Australia" was the largest collection of art ever to represent this country overseas. more

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HAROLD

HAROLD

1994 (PG) 56 min

The story of a forgotten Aboriginal hero: in the late 1940s Harold Blair was one of the most renowned Australian tenors of the concert hall, and was held up as a model of assimilation. more

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HERE'S MY HAND: A testimony to an Aboriginal Memorial

HERE'S MY HAND: A testimony to an Aboriginal Memorial

1988 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 27 min

A film by Michael Edols. Available on DVD and Vimeo-on-Demand as part of the ASPECTS OF A LIFE collection. more

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HERITAGE FIGHT

HERITAGE FIGHT

2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 104 min

Broome is a town in the Kimberley region, one of Australia's great wilderness areas. This is where the head of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, and Woodside, a multi billion-dollar company and Australia's largest liquid natural gas producers, decided to install the second largest liquified natural gas plant in the... more

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HIGHER EDUCATION

HIGHER EDUCATION

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 72 min

For some students, entering university can be the result of years of personal struggle and challenge. [DVD includes EXTRA FEATURE: Interview with the director, MILES ROSTON] more

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HISTORY BITES BACK

HISTORY BITES BACK

2021 (MA) 55 min

After the bold and brilliant Occupation: Native, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas teams up again with Comedy Director-Writer, Craig Anderson to launch a rocket into 250 years of taboos, prejudice and ignorance. History Bites Back uses devastating satire to unpack the negative social bias of the history shared... more

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HOLDING TIGHTLY - Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste

HOLDING TIGHTLY - Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste

2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 30 min

Holding Tightly observes seven approaches to healing in remote, rural and urban parts of the Baucau municipality in Timor-Leste, spanning contexts and experiences from the armed resistance era to the independence period. A film by Lisa Palmer and Susanna Barnes. more

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HOMELAND STORY

HOMELAND STORY

2019 (M) 84 min

An intimate portrait of Donydji, an Indigenous Homeland community in north-east Arnhem Land. The film charts their struggle from the 1960s to the present day to overcome the corrosive effects of government policy and pressure from mining interests, and to remain on their land. more

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HOUSE-OPENING, THE [from the AIATSIS Collection]

HOUSE-OPENING, THE [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1980 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 42 min

"House-opening" ceremonies in a contemporary Aboriginal community combine elements of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and European cultures in dealing with death. A film by Judith MacDougall. more

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HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

HOW THE WEST WAS LOST

1987 (G) 72 min

NOW RESTORED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! The story of the 1946 Aboriginal Pastoral Workers' Strike that has never officially ended. An event more important than the Eureka Stockade but never recorded in written histories - the passive resistance by 800 Aboriginal station workers against the appalling living and working... more

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IMAGINARY BORDER

IMAGINARY BORDER

2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 105 min

A challenging and compassionate reflection on race relations in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. A film by Iranian-born Austrian filmmaker, Alireza Ghanie. more

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IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 78 min

Follow the Tiwi Bombers football team through their first season in the Northern Territory's big league as they strive to fulfill the dreams of their grandfathers. more

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INNOCENCE BETRAYED

INNOCENCE BETRAYED

2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min

In 1990 and 1991, three Aboriginal children were murdered in the rural town of Bowraville NSW - Colleen Craig, Evelyn Greenup and Clinton Speedy-Duroux. Despite two trials and a coroner's inquest, no-one was ever convicted of the murders. more

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INTERVENTION 2 years on [from the CAAMA Collection]

INTERVENTION 2 years on [from the CAAMA Collection]

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min

An Aboriginal perspective on the effect of the Australian Government's Intervention in Aboriginal lives in the Northern Territory. more

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INTERVENTION, Katherine, N.T.

INTERVENTION, Katherine, N.T.

2008 (PG) 52 min

Intervention, Katherine, N.T. is a one-year record of the impact of The Emergency Intervention by the Federal Government in the Northern Territory region of Katherine and the surrounding communities of Beswick, Barunga, Eva Valley and Binjari. more

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INTERVENTION: Stories from the Inside

INTERVENTION: Stories from the Inside

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 46 min

An incisive inside look at the historic Intervention by the Federal Government in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, made with the participation of Alice Springs town-campers. more

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