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Follow-up series to TOWARDS BARUYA MANHOOD which focuses on the first stage of male initiation amongst the Baruya people of Papua New Guinea.
Test cricket's most famous controversy was the 1932-33 tour of Australia by the English - the Bodyline tour - who introduced a form of bowling aimed high at the batsman, designed to attack the batting genius of Australia's Don Bradman.
The story of Harry Walford, an unlikely hero who overcomes hardship, emerges triumphant and in the process pioneers the overland stock route from Southern Queensland to Adelaide.
A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won't get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won't let it go - all the way to the top.
Offbeat comedy concerning an American corporate executive sent to Australia on a mission.
An eerie thriller set on a lonely yacht in the Great Barrier Reef. A young couple are terrorised by a psychopath rescued from a crippled schooner. Based on the novel by Charles Williams.
This docu-drama recounts the most sensational event in Australia's constitutional history - the 1975 dismissal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam by the Queen's representative, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.
A disturbing drama about a young mother who bashes her baby. The woman is lonely, cannot cope with her domestic responsibilities, and does not want her third baby. She desperately needs help, but her mother, husband, doctor, neighbour and clinic sister do not understand - until the baby ends up in hospital with a fractured skull.
A mining engineer realises on his birthday that his life is almost half over. He leaves his wife and job before a young woman gives him a new sense of being.
A bank robber pretends to be blind in order to avoid a lengthy jail term.
The record of a traditional Djangkawu ceremony held at Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land. The ceremony was organised by Wndjuk Marika. It was both a memorial to his father, a famous clan leader, and a reaffirmation of the Law of the Djangkawu Creator Ancestors. Throughout the two weeks of the ceremony there is a heavy emphasis on teaching the Law to the younger generation through song and dance.
A rip-roaring hilarious look at Sydney in the 1920s through the eyes of two colourful crime queens and a tough, ruthless police officer. The rival girls are Kitty O'Rourke and Big Lil Delaney, and the officer trying to keep control is the Bagman.
Based on a true and epic story about men and horses and water. The film begins in 1917 when the British campaign in Palestine is stalemated. Focusing on four men in the Australian Light Horse Regiment involved in the battle, the film reaches a climax with the last great cavalry charge in history when 800 Australian lighthorsemen obey the seemingly impossible order to charge against Turkish troops who are formidably supported by machine guns, artillery and aircraft.
Sequel to Mad Max. Now Max is a lonely, unhappy man in a cruel and ugly world. He becomes a protector to a group of neo-hippies who are producing petrol, the last natural resource worth fighting for.
Max, still a lonely wanderer in the post-nuclear outback, stumbles into Bartertown, a settlement ruled by Aunty Entity. As a result of a duel in the 'thunderdome' cage, Max is again forced to return to the wilderness.
The story of the life of Australia's famous opera diva - Dame Nellie Melba.
While searching for his missing wife in the Australian outback, a man finds himself pitted against a vicious killer.
The story of an extraordinary young woman, Libby McKenzie, who worked with the idealistic and ambitious Fred Burley, the Australian founder of the women's underwear empire 'Berlei'. The film shows Australia emerging from the sedate traditions of Edwardianism into the energetic 1920s.
Yirrkala was an isolated mission station until the coming of a huge bauxite mine in the late 1960s. The impact of the mine on the Yolngu, the Aboriginal people of northeast Arnhem Land, and their response is a major theme of this long-term film project. Twenty two films document many aspects of Yolngu life. Each stands on its own but each is also part of a rich mosaic. The relationship between people and their clans, ritual, art and land is an intertwining theme. Several major ceremonies are documented. The importance of the land is ever present. Despite enormous disruption to their lives, the resilience of the Yolngu and their culture shines through.
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