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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,
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
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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EIGHT LADIES [from the CAAMA Collection]
2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
A journey through Alyawarr Country with eight ladies as they hunt echidna and gather bush tucker. more
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
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
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]
1980 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min
Mapping traditional clan country in north Queensland. more
FANTOME ISLAND
2011 (PG) 82 min
The fascinating and moving tale of Joe Eggmolesse, who in 1945 was removed from his family and confined to an Indigenous leper colony on an island off the North Queensland coast. He was seven years old. more
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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
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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FIVE SEASONS [from the CAAMA Collection]
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
In these fast and modern times, the Numurindi people are still guided by the seasons and stories of the Dreamtime. This observational documentary focuses on Moses Numamurdirdi and his families fight to hold onto their culture and ways in an ever-changing world. more
FIVE SHORT FILMS FROM THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY FUND
1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 130 min
Five short films from the National Indigenous Documentary Fund - all films are touched by the past but deliver a unique contemporary Indigenous perspective. more
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
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
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
FRONTIER CONVERSATION, A
2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 54 min
A fascinating journey through the Top End of Australia to explore what history means to the traditional landowners. more
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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
GEOFF DIXON - PORTRAITS OF US
2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 82 min
An intimate portrait of the life and work of iconoclastic New Zealand artist Geoff Dixon. more