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Films about the First Nations peoples of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, including many films by First Nations filmmakers. Stories range across issues relating to identity and the diversity of histories and cultures both before and after the arrival of Captain Cook, including the "Stolen Generations," art, anthropology, archaeology and politics,
BIG NAME, NO BLANKET
2013 (M) 58 min
The extraordinary story of George Rrurrambu, the former lead singer of the pioneering Warumpi Band of the 1980s. George was the charismatic frontman, who combined rock and roll, reggae, pop and traditional culture to spread the message about Indigenous contemporary issues, awakening the Australian consciousness of another... more
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BLACK AND DUSTY [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 43 min
Follows a group of First Nations competitors in the Finke Desert Race in Central Australia. more
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BLACK ANGELS: A Widening Vision
1994 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
BLACK ANGELS centres on the life and work of young Brisbane artist, Gordon Bennett, who is one of this country's leading Indigenous artists. more
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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
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BLACK MAGIC
1988 (G) 55 min
It is through the medium of sport that Aboriginal people have best been able to express themselves to white Australia. Australia's greatest Aboriginal footballers talk about the sources of their motivation, about their family experiences and their roots. more
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BLACK MAN'S HOUSES
1992 (G) 58 min
This documentary tells the story of black survival in Tasmania amidst the continuing suppression of history and culture. In doing so, it challenges skin-deep assumptions about Aboriginality today. more
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BLOWN AWAY
2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 61 min
A powerful examination of the myths and facts of Cyclone Tracy, one of Australia's worst natural disasters which devastated the city of Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974. The film especially explores previously unrecorded Indigenous responses to the crisis. more
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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
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BRAN NUE DAE
1991 (PG) 55 min
This documentary traces the development and production of the successful stage musical, Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how his experiences and education led to his writing of the semi-autobiographical musical. Selections from the musical are intercut with interviews and historical footage. more
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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
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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
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BREWARRINA'S ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM
1998 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 20 min
Made by students and staff at Brewarrina Central School in the north-west of New South Wales, this video documents an innovative Aboriginal language program for students in the first two years of high school (Years 7 and 8). more
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BUFFALO LEGENDS
1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
Bill Dempsey MBE, himself a football legend, narrates this story of a group of men who knocked down the barriers of racism on the sporting field. On the way they established a way of life based on tolerance, respect and an ethic of making your own fun whatever obstacles are placed along the path. more
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BUNGALUNG [from the CAAMA Collection]
2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 22 min
An epic Dreaming story re-told by Anmatjere Elders, in which two young men challenge a clan of Demons. more
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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
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CALL ME MUM
2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 76 min
Set in the recent past, the AFI award-winning Call Me Mum is a series of interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of mothering, race relations and family in Australia. more
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CAMELS & THE PITJANTJARA [from the AIATSIS Collection]
1969 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 45 min
A classic documentary from 1969 which records the Pitjantjara people's use of feral camels in central Australia, capturing and taming them, and using them as pack animals. more
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CASE 442 [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 49 min
Frank Byrne spent most of his adult life on a personal crusade to find his mother, after being taken away from her at the age of 5. more
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CASS - NO SAUCEPAN DIVER [from the AIATSIS Collection]
1982 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 12 min
Cass is a part-Aboriginal, part-Malay, part-Scottish man who used to work as a diver in the pearling industry in Broome, Western Australia. A film by Wayne Barker, his grandson. more
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CHASING SHADOWS
2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min
Colin Darcy and his two best mates from the mining town of Whyalla start a hip hop band called SHADOWS. They move to Adelaide with high hopes and write rap songs about their personal experiences – being Aboriginal, growing up in a small town, racism, loss of family and striving for success. more
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CHEEKY DOG [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
Dion Beasley is 15 years old, profoundly deaf and suffers from Muscular Dystrophy. The only way he is able to communicate is through his drawings. With the help of a close friend and teacher, they have established a label for t-shirts and other apparel, called "Cheeky Dog". It is hoped that this venture will create... more
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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
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COLD TURKEY [from the CAAMA Collection]
2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 45 min
A drama about two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living. more
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COLLUM CALLING CANBERRA [from the AIATSIS Collection]
1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 56 min
A cattle station's view of negotiating with a distant bureaucracy. more
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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
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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COOL DRINK AND CULTURE [from the CAAMA Collection]
2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
The links between traditional bush foods and good health, and supermarket foods and poor health. more
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CRACKS IN THE MASK
1997 (G) 56 min
A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Expedition - the resulting depletion of their cultural artifacts left them with nothing but a history of remembered loss. The only people in the Pacific to make elaborate turtleshell masks have none left - they are all in foreign... more
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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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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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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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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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CROSS LIFE
2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 100 min
CROSS LIFE is the first feature film directed by Claire McCarthy, a rapidly emerging new star of Australian cinema. Her second feature is the acclaimed THE WAITING CITY, filmed in India and released nationally through Hopscotch Films. more
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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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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
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
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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DEADLY YARNS 4
2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min
5 short films made by Indigenous Western Australians. [includes Special Features: A behind-the scenes documentary on each film]. more
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