Indigenous DVD List May10

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5 seasons . Moses Numamurdirdi and his system, alleging he was verbally and physically abused by family (Numurindi people) fight to hold onto the police. He went on to spend 14 years in prison for a crime their culture and ways in an ever-changing he claims he did not commit. (55 min.) DVD BRO world. (52 min.) DVD FIV Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Cross cultural awareness. According to the accompanying Aboriginal dance: three dances by Gulpilill / Five guide, “this resource is designed to Aboriginal dances from Cape York . Two programs of some gain entry level understanding and traditional Aboriginal dances. (15 min.) DVD ABO appreciation for Aboriginal Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). traditional and contemporary cultural diversity.” The DVD Arrernte dreaming. This DVD provides students with an opportunity to explore Aboriginal tells one of the Dreaming and non Aboriginal peoples experiences of cultural stories of Central Australia’s awareness issues. The publisher recommends that it be used Arrernte people. In the story of in conjunction with Arrernte dreaming, Nyungar dreaming, the fearsome Bungulunga Man Tiwi dreaming, and Stolen generations: incident at Menindee viewers learn about the Mission . (32 min.) DVD CRO importance of acting as a community and caring for others. The publisher recommends Crossing the line. When two young non- that it be used in conjunction with Cross cultural awareness . Indigenous medical students work in a remote (17 min.) DVD ARR Aboriginal community, their professional precepts and personal ideas are deeply Babakiueria: a black comedy. A light- challenged. (56 min.) DVD CRO hearted satire that reverses the roles, Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). imagining what it would be like if a fleet of Indigenous Australians arrived to try and settle an area inhabited by white Deadly yarns. Short films made by natives. (30 min.) DVD BAB Indigenous filmmakers for the ABC’s Classification : PG (Mild themes). Message stick series. The films are Broken bonds (5:45 min.), Don’t say sorry (6:24), Black and white. This courtroom drama, based on a true Ganggu mama (11:45), Miss Coolbaroo story, tells the story of an Aboriginal man accused of raping (8:19) and Sugar bag (8:12). (Total time: 41 and killing a young girl. [See also Broken English , a min.) DVD DEA documentary about the accused man.] (101 min.) DVD BLA Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Classification : M (Adult themes; Medium level coarse language; Medium level violence). Deadly yarns 2. Includes Adrift (6:18 min.), Frankie’s story (6:48), Main actors (6:08), Black chicks talking. Leah Purcell talks with five Indigenous Talkabout walkabout (8:25) and Weewar (6:00). women, individually and together. The women are Roseanna (Total time: 34 min.) DVD DEA Angus, a community warden and cultural tour guide; Kathryn Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Hay, the first Aboriginal Miss Australia; Deborah Mailman, an actress; Cilla Malone, a mother of six from Cherbourg, an Deadly yarns 3. Includes Bollywood Aboriginal settlement in south-east Queensland; and Tammy dreaming (7:49 min.), Karla (7:10), Who Williams, a lawyer who wants to become the UN High paintin’ dis Wandjina (8.04), Wrong way Commissioner for Human Rights. (50 min.) DVD BLA (7:14) and You’re not playing that! (4:33) Classification : M (Low level coarse language). (Total time: 35 min.) DVD DEA Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Broken English. Arrernte man Rupert Max Stuart has always maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl in 1958. In Broken English , a film combining documentary and drama, we hear from Max and others involved in the case. Max Stuart claims he was a victim of the white justice

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Indigenous Matters DVDs 2 Deadly yarns 4. Includes Mabuji (5:09 min.), My The Foundation 1963-1977. During the nan & the yandi (7:40), George & the ngurrungu 1960s, as the Koori population in Sydney (6:33), Culture clash (8:03) and Music men grew, 'The Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs' (7:13) (Total running time: 35 min.) DVD DEA emerged. Established by Charles Perkins Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). and other Aboriginal activists, with the support of influential white citizens, its role Dhakiyarr vs the King. In 1933, on Woodah was to assist rural Aboriginal people who had Island, in north-east Arnhem Land, the Yolngu leader, migrated to the city. (26 min.) DVD FOU Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda speared Constable McColl, who had Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). chained up his wife. This was Dhakiyarr’s land and his response was in accordance with his law. On the advice of Freedom Ride. “One of the first Aboriginal missionaries he travelled to Darwin to explain his actions in people to graduate from university, Charles the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Seventy years after Perkins soon came to the forefront of direct his controversial murder trial and disappearance, the family is action against oppression and injustice, still searching for truth and his body. (56 min.) DVD DHA leading the 1965 freedom rides that Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). challenged apartheid practices in northern NSW. This film [directed and produced by Documentaries that changed the world Vol 2: John his daughter Rachel] takes [him] back to Moree and Walgett Pilger's Australia. Includes Welcome to Australia [PG (adult and uses newsreel footage and dramatic reconstructions to themes)], The secret country , Other people’s wars [G], retrace his story.” – Back cover. (55 min.) DVD FRE Heroes unsung [M 15+] and Secrets . (3 DVDs: 275 min.) Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). DVD JOH Classification : See note beside each title; some are not classified. The fringe dwellers. This film deals with cultural bigotry and society’s unsympathetic treatment of Trilby Comeaway The Dreaming. Seventy-eight animated stories from the (Kristina Nehm), an Aboriginal girl who has bought into the Dreaming. Suitable for primary students. Teacher’s Guide Anglo dream of upward mobility and assimilation into also available. (6 DVDs: 1110 min.) DVD DRE mainstream white society. (97 min.) DVD FRI Classification : PG. Embassy days. On Australia Day, 1972, four young Indigenous activists arrived on the lawns of Parliament From little things, big things grow. A House in Canberra with little idea their small protest would documentary about Kev Carmody, whose turn into a major defining period of Australia's modern history. 1989 debut album, Pillars of Society , was The Aboriginal Tent Embassy became a national voice for described by Rolling Stone as “the best Aboriginal Australians, playing a major role in the creation of album ever released by an Aborigine and the first Australian land rights legislation. (54 min.) DVD EMB arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia.” (55 min.) DVD FRO First Australians: the untold story of Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Australia. This series, covering the period from 1788 to 1992, “chronicles the birth of Harry's war . Focuses on the life of a young Aboriginal contemporary Australia as never told before, soldier, Harry, who leaves Condah Mission to fight for his from the perspective of its first people…. First country in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. Australians depicts the true stories of He joins his mate Mitch, a non-Aboriginal Australian. It is a individuals - both black and white - caught in story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in embraces culture, war and death. (27 min.) DVD HOL Australia's most transformative period of history.” – Back Classification : M (Medium level violence). cover. (7 DVDs: 980 min.: each disc contains 80 minutes of bonus educational content.) DVD FIR Holistic planning and teaching framework. Employs the Classification : PG (Mild themes). life experiences of Ernie Grant to demonstrate the elements of the Framework. Produced by the Indigenous Schooling First citizen: Albert Namatjira. Explores how Support Unit, Education Queensland. (90 min.) DVD HOL Namatjira became the first Aboriginal artist to adopt the painting techniques and modes of Jardiwarnpa: a Warlpiri fire ceremony. expression of a culture in direct contrast to his “Law man Darby Jampinjimpa Ross and own. (55 min.) DVD FIR other Warlpiri elders introduce us to their Classification : G. community's fire ceremony…. [T]he film follows the staging of the ceremony, The Forgotten. A film about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait involving hundreds of people, over several Islander servicemen and women who have served in the weeks – part of the process of retaining Australian forces in wars and peace-keeping missions during traditional law and culture within the community.” – Back the past 100 years. (27 min.) DVD FOR cover. (55 min.) DVD JAR Classification : Exempt. Classification : Exempt (for educational use only).

Indigenous Matters DVDs 3 Kanyini: over 40,000 years of culture - Our community . An exploration of the concept of one philosophy that connects us all. A 'community' via an intimate expedition through listed traditional owner of Uluru and former the townships of Walgett, Lightning Ridge and Indigenous Person of the Year, Bob Randall, Sheep Yard. (24 min.) DVD OUR tells why Indigenous people are struggling Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). and what needs to be done. (53 min.) DVD KAN Our rights: a foundation for the future. Classification : PG (Mild themes). Concerns civil rights for Indigenous Australians. (14 min.) DVD OUR Land bilong islanders. This film tells the story of what became known as the ‘Mabo Painting country. Intimately portrays the life Case’. Murray Island (Mer to locals) is the and humour of Balgo’s Indigenous artists. centre of a legal battle that questions the The film reveals why they left their country legality of European settlement in Australia, and why their relationship with their land is challenging the concept of ‘terra nullius’. (52 still fundamental to their existence. (52 min.) min.) DVD LAN DVD PAI Classification : G. Classification : Exempt (for educational use only).

Land of the little kings. Provides personal Rabbit-proof fence. This film, based on a accounts of the forcible removal of true story from the 1930s, follows three Indigenous children from their families. young girls, forcibly taken from their Musician and performer Archie Roach families, who travel 1500 miles to return to reconstructs his own story as one such child. their homes in the north of Western (78 min.) DVD LAN Australia. (2 discs: 144 min; film: 94 min.) Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). DVD RAB Classification : PG (Adult themes). Liyarn ngarn. The impetus for this documentary was the murder of Bill Johnson's adopted son, Louis St John, on his Ripples from Wave Hill. About the successful 1966 fight of 19th birthday, allegedly “because he was black”. (85 min.) the Gurindji people against Lord Vestey's cattle empire at DVD LIY Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory. (54 min.) DVD RIP Classification : M (Moderate themes; Moderate coarse language). Rose against the odds . The true story of Lousy little sixpence . The title of this the boxing legend Lionel Rose who, in 1968, powerful documentary refers to the wages at the age of just 19, became the world paid to children forcibly removed from their bantamweight champion. (106 min.) DVD families and hired out to white employers. ROS (54 min.) DVD LOU Classification : PG (Coarse language; Drug references; Classification : G. Low level violence).

Salute. This film tells the story of Peter Nyungar dreaming. This DVD Norman, the silver medallist of the men's “examines the important 200 metres final at the 1968 Mexico City creation story of Rainbow Olympics. The other medallists, Tommie Serpent which the Nyungar Smith and John Carlos, who gave the Black people refer to as the Power salute at the medal ceremony, regard Waugal…. The Waugal was/is him as a brother. The film, made by the an all-powerful creator who athlete’s nephew, salutes this almost forgotten (in Australia, created and maintained the natural and cultural law and but not in the United States) man. (88 min.) DVD SAL order.” – Accompanying guide, p. 2. The publisher Classification : PG (Civil rights themes). recommends that it be used in conjunction with Cross cultural awareness . (20 min.) DVD NYU Samson and Delilah. Two teenagers, living in a remote Aboriginal community in Central One night the moon . A musical drama based on the true Australia, because of a mixture of boredom story of a young girl’s disappearance in 1932 after her father and personal trauma, turn to glue-sniffing. refuses an Aboriginal to lead the search. “No blacks on my An uncompromising, tender, and ultimately land.” (57 min.) DVD ONE uplifting film. (100 min.) DVD SAM Classification : M (Adult themes). Classification : MA 15+ (Strong substance abuse and coarse language).

Indigenous Matters DVDs 4 Steps in time. Features the vibrant Aboriginal music and Ways of thinking . Examines the Warlpiri dance of Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. For community of Central Australia, with an primary and early secondary students. (45 min.) DVD STE emphasis on language, culture, customs and social problems. (29 min.) DVD WAY Stolen generations. This film tells the stories Classification : G. of three Aboriginal people who were removed from their families and looks at the We are all Australian: multiculturalism, contemporary debate on the issue. Includes stereotyping and racism. A project supported by the interviews with historians, Marcia Langton and Australian Government's Living in Harmony programme. (32 Henry Reynolds. (52 min.) DVD STO min.) DVD WEA Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Why me? 5 stories of removal from family and country. Stolen generations: incident at Re-enacted scenes from the 1950s and 60s show the Menindee Mission. This animated emotional journeys of the children of the stolen generation. story and accompanying (30 min.) DVD WHY documentary tells of the removal, in Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). 1947, of children from their community. The publisher Women of the Sun. This series screened on recommends that it be used in Australian TV in 1981. It was the first time that conjunction with Cross cultural awareness . (12 min.) DVD a national audience had heard Aboriginal STO women speaking in their own language. (2 DVDs: total running time – 240 min.) DVD Three strong women / Wimitja Phuledaa. A film by TAFE WOM Riverina Institute Coomealla Campus ‘Cool Program’. “They Classification : PG (Low level violence). took the kids...they put them in a car...I thought I was going with them...but they said no.” DVD THR Women of the sun...25 years later. A powerful documentary about the lives of the Tiwi dreaming. Tells the story women who played leading roles in the of ‘Purrukapali’, the first Tiwi ground-breaking drama series, Women of the Man and Tiwi god. The Tiwi Sun . (80 min.) DVD WOM Classification : PG (Infrequent mild coarse language; Mild people say that this story is themes; Mild violence). their main Dreaming and knowing it assists in Yajilarra = To dream: Aboriginal women understanding their cultural and leading change in remote Australia. After spiritual beliefs. The story is also about kinship connections, 13 suicides in 13 months in a community in family obligations and tribal law. The publisher recommends the north of Western Australia, a group of that it be used in conjunction with Cross cultural awareness . Aboriginal women came together in 2007 to (16 min.) DVD TIW address issues of family violence, child abuse and alcohol overconsumption. The Urban clan A documentary, released in inspiring results are revealed in this film. (21 min.) DVD YAR 1998, about the Page brothers, Stephen, David and Russell (who died in 2002), the Yellow fella . Biographical film of Tom creative centre of the Bangarra Dance Lewis...”I'm not black, I'm not white, I'm a Theatre. “The essence of the Page brothers' yellow fella and I'm gonna stay that way.” story captures an Aboriginal 'dreaming' of (25 min.) DVD YEL three spirits, a storyteller, a song man and a dancer, who through their collective art, build bridges within their own culture and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.” – Back cover. (55 min.) DVD URB Classification : Exempt (for educational use only).

Vote yes for Aborigines: a documentary . A documentary about the 1967 Referendum Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers and the fight for citizenship rights for should exercise caution when watching these programs Aborigines, made to mark the occasion’s as they may contain images of deceased persons. 40th anniversary. (52 min.) DVD VOT Classification : Exempt (for educational use only).