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1988 (PG) 59 min
Drawing on interviews and a striking selection of archival footage, this film reveals the expectations and achievements of women who have struggled to gain a tertiary education - and the reality of discrimination. The film employs the unusual device of a whimsical investigator, Sophia Whist, who pieces together the elements... more Click for pricing information
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2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 14 min
WINNER! BEST ANIMATION, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL! An animated film by Lee Whitmore about a charismatic teacher who stirs the imaginations of the teenage girls in her classroom. Inspired by the epic poem by Matthew Arnold. more Click for pricing information
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 74 min
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. more Click for pricing information
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1989 (M) 55 min
The pain of severe burn is said to be greater than that of any other injury. SOMETHING CLOSE TO HELL explores the stuggle of burns survivors during their physical and emotional recovery. more Click for pricing information
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1985 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 41 min
The story of Aboriginal and white buffalo hunters in the remote wetlands of the Northern Territory in the 1930s. more Click for pricing information
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2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min
Imagining a life for Kate Kelly - a woman overshadowed in her own time and in history by her bushranging brother. At the core of the film is the story of writer Merrill Findlay's efforts to prepare a chamber opera about Kate's last days. more Click for pricing information
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1975 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 47 min
A group of celebrated Aboriginal artists and their relationship with the outside world. more Click for pricing information
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1983 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min
An age-old tradition of making spear-heads from special stones in Arnhem Land. more Click for pricing information
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1991 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min
Australia imprisons almost as many black children as they do in South Africa. Today 45% of all juveniles in NSW jails are Aborigines though they form less than 2% of the population. Made by a crew of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, this program asks why police are under-using alternative procedures to criminal... more Click for pricing information
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1981 (G) 54 min
In November 1979, forty extraordinary people took to the stage. Labelled by society as mentally handicapped, isolated and hidden away in institutions since early childhood, they came to the Sydney Opera House and gave a performance that held audiences spellbound. This film tells the joyous story of that event. more Click for pricing information
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2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min
Rob Fraser was born with cystic fibrosis. He can see the end of his life clearly and he's considering a lung transplant. With Rob's intimate narration, he contemplates what he is prepared to risk. more Click for pricing information
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2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 88 min
A poetic celebration of country and culture, Still Our Country documents the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory. This evocative carnival of images and sounds makes a bold declaration of identity and offers a hopeful promise of a future. more Click for pricing information
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2017 (M) 27 min
The Still Point explores the life's work of one of Australia's most respected and pioneering documentary photographers: for five decades, Robert McFarlane has put a mirror up to the changing face of Australia. more Click for pricing information
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1984 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 51 min
An insight into the transfer of knowledge and experience on the Collum Collum cattle station in north-eastern New South Wales. more Click for pricing information
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2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
The removal of Aboriginal children in Australia was a deliberate government policy and forms part of the history of dispossession of the country's original inhabitants. Every Aboriginal family in Australia has directly or indirectly been affected and the effects have lasted over generations. Many have called this genocide. more Click for pricing information
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2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min
Stone Country is a snapshot of a remote Indigenous community of Ngukurr in northern Australia. more Click for pricing information
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A screenplay by David Williamson * Text by Bill Gammage * Penguin Books 1981 * Paperback * 159 pages * This book provides a compelling record of the ill-fated military campaign at Gallipoli in 1915, through historical photographs and eyewitness accounts of the ANZACS who fought in it. more Click for pricing information
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2006 (M) 52 min
Claudia is trying to start a new life for herself after the loss of her mother. She lives and fights with her loving but inept father and psychotic little sister. When two children are dumped on the family, Claudia moves into her mother's abandoned car in the driveway. She plans to fix it and take off - that's if she can... more Click for pricing information
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2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 17 min
Late in 2013 the Music Engagement Program (MEP), of the School of Music at the Australian National University, initiated a practical instrumental project in music and skill-sharing called the MEP String Project. The Project was part of the MEP's work in exploring with the new, innovative ACT Government Arts Policy, which... more Click for pricing information
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2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min
The Strong Men of Nguiu have been striving to restore cultural traditions among the youth on the Tiwi Islands. Leading by example, they are steering the next generation away from substance abuse and crime to become leaders of tomorrow. more Click for pricing information
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