Movies:

  • 2000
    Cunnamulla

    Cunnamulla (2000)

    Cunnamulla

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    Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Here, Aboriginal and white Australians live together ...

    Cunnamulla
  • 1996
    Taking Pictures

    Taking Pictures (1996)

    Taking Pictures

    01996HD

    Before the 1970s, the Commonwealth Film Unit represented the people of PNG in a paternalistic way, as curiosities. The unit used pompous voice-overs telling viewers what they should believe. Les McLaren and Annie Stiven are two of a group of Australi...

    Taking Pictures
  • 1983
    The Human Face of the Pacific: The Marshall Islands. Living with the Bomb

    The Human Face of the Pacific: The Marshall Islands. Living with the Bomb (1983)

    The Human Face of the Pacific: The Marshall Islands. Living with the Bomb

    01983HD

    The people of the Bikini Atoll were removed from their homelands as a result of American testing of nuclear bombs in the Pacific. They now live on another island, dependent on American food and support. They can never go back to Bikini Atoll because ...

    The Human Face of the Pacific: The Marshall Islands. Living with the Bomb
  • 2005
    Land Mines: A Love Story

    Land Mines: A Love Story (2005)

    Land Mines: A Love Story

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    Habiba and Shah who, because of the wars fought in Afghanistan over the past 25 years, have experienced immense suffering, but who have survived to show how it is possible to be brave and moral in this world of sanctioned violence and lies. Shah, a ...

    Land Mines: A Love Story
  • 1991
    The Good Woman of Bangkok

    The Good Woman of Bangkok (1991)

    The Good Woman of Bangkok

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    Film maker Dennis O'Rourke documents the day to day life of Aoi, a Thai prostitute through interviews with her and her family as well as taking us through some of the tourist frequented bars and night clubs....

    The Good Woman of Bangkok
  • 1983
    The Human Face of the Pacific: Fiji. Legacies of Empire

    The Human Face of the Pacific: Fiji. Legacies of Empire (1983)

    The Human Face of the Pacific: Fiji. Legacies of Empire

    01983HD

    People whose family originated in India comprise just over half of Fiji’s population. Indians came to Fiji in colonial times under an indentured labour system to work in the sugar cane fields. Some indigenous Fijians wish to repossess the land now wo...

    The Human Face of the Pacific: Fiji. Legacies of Empire
  • 1978
    Ileksen: Politics in Papua New Guinea

    Ileksen: Politics in Papua New Guinea (1978)

    Ileksen: Politics in Papua New Guinea

    5.81978HD

    A companion to Yumi yet, O’Rourke and Kildea’s Ileksen (derived from the English 'election’) documents Papua New Guinea’s first general election in 1977. The film records a broad cross-section of candidates who, without an extended media network at t...

    Ileksen: Politics in Papua New Guinea
  • 1986
    Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age

    Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (1986)

    Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age

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    The film features interviews with residents of the nearby Rongelap and Utirik Atolls who were affected by nuclear fallout from the tests. Unlike in previous nuclear tests and despite the considerably more powerful nuclear explosion involved, these re...

    Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age
  • 1981
    Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV?

    Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV? (1981)

    Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV?

    01981HD

    Examining the change of culture in the small island after American television began being broadcast....

    Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV?
  • 1984
    Couldn't Be Fairer

    Couldn't Be Fairer (1984)

    Couldn't Be Fairer

    01984HD

    An honest look at the lives, trials and tribulations of Aboriginal people living in Queensland....

    Couldn't Be Fairer
  • 1982
    The Sharkcallers of Kontu

    The Sharkcallers of Kontu (1982)

    The Sharkcallers of Kontu

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    Believing that the spirits of their ancestors dwell in the mako shark, shark callers are not only hunting but also maintaining a connection with their past....

    The Sharkcallers of Kontu
  • 1977
    Yumi Yet

    Yumi Yet (1977)

    Yumi Yet

    5.51977HD

    Documents Independence Day of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the capital. Also provides historical background about the area's 19th-century colonization by Holland, ...

    Yumi Yet
  • 1988
    Cannibal Tours

    Cannibal Tours (1988)

    Cannibal Tours

    5.91988HD

    The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies an...

    Cannibal Tours