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The Snowman

2010, M, 78mins, Australia

In 1978 Jimmy Graham, a thirty four year old happily married the father of two, scored his dream job with Operation Deepfreeze - training American scientists in survival skills in Antarctica. He left in December of that year.

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Girl Clock

2010, MA15+, 80mins, Australia

Globe-trotting Christine wakes up one ordinary day to find that her biological clock has gone off with a vengeance...

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A Good Man

2009, M, 79mins, Australia

Struggling NSW farmer Chris Rohrlach desperately needs a second income. Fourteen years ago, his pregnant girlfriend Rachel suffered a massive stroke which left her incurably quadriplegic at age 21.

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Music Of The Brain

2009, E, 55mins, Australia

Music affects our development from the womb to the grave. This documentary examines the role music plays in developing our brains as humans.

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The Snowman

Director: Juliet Lamont
Australia

Girl Clock

Director: Jennifer Ussi
Australia

A Good Man

Director: Safina Uberoi
Australia

Music Of The Brain

Director: Fiona Cochrane
Australia

The Men Who Would Conquer China

2004, G, 78mins, Australia

This beautifully-layered, insightful and very funny documentary feature is the latest in Nick Torrens’ long-term Hong Kong-China series.

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To Get Rich Is Glorious

2004, G, 55mins, Australia

In this astonishingly candid documentary, wealthy Hong Kong entrepreneur VINCENT LEE opens up his world of influence, his successful business strategies, his dilemmas and his fears.

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China: The Golden Opportunity

2004, G, 58mins, Australia

This dramatic and humorous documentary compares the values and motivations of the North American and the Chinese locked together by perceived mutual advantage - in a struggle crucial to the future of each.

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Strange Birds in Paradise

2010, M, 75mins, Australia

While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist David Bridie.

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The Men Who Would Conquer China

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

To Get Rich Is Glorious

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

China: The Golden Opportunity

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

Strange Birds in Paradise

Director: Charlie Hill-Smith
Australia

Ball Of Light

2011, G, 14mins, Australia

This 15 minute documentary tells the story of Denis Smith, professional light painter.

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Darling River Kids

1986, G, 51mins, Australia

Presents a glimpse of what life is like for the children of Wilcannia. Follows a 2000 kilometre expedition lead by an Aboriginal sites officer and a Barkindji elder. An attempt by the Barkindji to ensure continuity of their traditional knowledge.

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Lord of the Bush

1990, G, 56mins, Australia

Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream - an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia's North based around the town of Broome in the remote north of Western Australia.

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Kemira Diary of a Strike

1982, G, 59mins, Australia

IN September1982, at the height of an economic recession, the Australian steelworks BHP announced its intention to close down some of its coal mines.

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Ball Of Light

Director: Sam Collins
Australia

Darling River Kids

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

Lord of the Bush

Director: Tom Zubryki
Australia

Kemira Diary of a Strike

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Searching for Michael Peterson

2010, G, 55mins, Australia

Michael Peterson ruled the surf scene throughout the early to mid-1970s with his savage, groundbreaking surfing. However fame comes with a price...

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Strangers In Paradise

1988, G, 55mins, Australia

Twelve American and British tourists go on a ten day guided tour of Australia at the height of the Bicentennial celebrations. What they discover about Aboriginal Australians shocks them and perplexes them.

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Four Of A Kind

2009, M, 115mins, Australia

Four women, each with a well hidden secret, that if revealed could slash the very fabric of their lives. Through the veil of lies, all four flirt with the truth, but the lies they tell themselves might be the ones that hurt the most.

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Ball Of Light - trailer

2011, G, 0:mins, Australia

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Searching for Michael Peterson

Director: Jolyon Hoff
Australia

Strangers In Paradise

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Four Of A Kind

Director: Fiona Cochrane
Australia

Ball Of Light - trailer

Director: Sam Collins
Australia

Hope

2010, MA15+, 104mins, Australia

Amal Basry fled Iraq and 18 months later the boat she was on sank en route to Australia. 353 people drowned. Amal survived by clinging to the floating body of a dead woman for 22 hours.

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The Triangle Wars

2012, E, 90mins, Australia

An inspirational story for our times, The Triangle Wars is the story of the battle being waged between local government, big business and the community over the development of a tiny sliver of crown land on the foreshore of St Kilda.

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The Matilda Candidate

2010, E, 57mins, Australia

Curtis Levy is a man on a musical mission - running for the Australian Senate on a single ticket to make the folksong ‘Waltzing Matilda’ the new national anthem when Australia becomes a republic.

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Least Said Soonest Mended

1999, E, 52mins, Australia

Pregnant at 15 in England and dispatched to an institution where she was hidden away and arrangements made for the subsequent adoption of her baby, filmmaker Steve Thomas’ twin sister, Val, spent the next 25 years not knowing where her child was.

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Hope

Director: Steve Thomas, Sue Brooks
Australia

The Triangle Wars

Director: Rosie Jones
Australia

The Matilda Candidate

Director: Curtis Levy
Australia

Least Said Soonest Mended

Director: Steve Thomas
Australia

Growing Change

2011, E, 59mins, Australia

Growing Change is an inspiring documentary that looks at one of the most exciting experiments in the world to grow a fair and sustainable food system.

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Lost In Flanders

2009, E, 52mins, Australia

Ninety years after the last shots were fired, two young Australian historians embark on an emotional journey to the First World War battlefields on the infamous Western Front.

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Feral Peril

2008, G, 52mins, Australia

Tasmania is one of the world’s last great wildlife havens but its struggling native species are under threat from a feral fox invasion. Or are they?

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Abortion Corruption and Cops - The Bertram Wainer Story

2005, MA15+, 52mins, Australia

In his fight to make abortion accessible, affordable and safe, Dr Bertram Wainer risked his life to uncover a web of corruption involving abortionists, politicians and police.

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Growing Change

Director: Simon Cunich
Australia

Lost In Flanders

Director: Geoff Burton
Australia

Feral Peril

Director: Andrew Sully
Australia

Abortion Corruption and Cops - The Bertram Wainer Story

Director: John More
Australia

Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing: Feature One (1)

2008, M, 55mins, Australia

Global surfing culture is a mix of wildness, grace and cool that is utterly Australian, but how did a nation of people, who mostly couldn’t swim, turn a Polynesian pastime into a national obsession and international cultural force?

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Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing: Feature Two (2)

2008, PG, 55mins, Australia

In the early days of Australia’s surf history, young people found a place to live out their dreams of innocence and freedom in the surf, but it wasn’t to last.

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Unfolding Florence

2006, PG, 82mins, Australia

In this spirited and highly original documentary, acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of one larger than life woman, flamboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst.

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Cane Toads

1987, G, 80mins, Australia

This humorous program takes a close look at Australia’s cane toad pest problem.

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Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing: Feature One (1)

Director: Greg Appel Paul Clarke
Australia

Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing: Feature Two (2)

Director: Greg Appel, Paul Clarke
Australia

Unfolding Florence

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Australia

Cane Toads

Director: Mark Lewis
Australia

Facing the Music

2001, PG, 85mins, Australia

It's budget time at the University, and Professor Anne Boyd is in a panic. As gifted young students pursue the mysteries of musical creation, Boyd is fighting to preserve basic standards after nearly a decade of relentless funding cuts.

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Rats In the Ranks

1996, PG, 93mins, Australia

In early 1994 knives were being sharpened at Leichhardt Council in this classic study of ambition and betrayal in politics. An encore showing of the documentary from oscar-nominated film-maker, Robin Anderson, who recently died.

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The Balanda and the Bark Canoes - Making 'Ten Canoes'

2006, PG, 51mins, Australia

Documentary on the making of Rolf De Heer's feature film 'Ten Canoes', a film he describes as 'the most difficult film (he) made'. Detailed are the challenges encountered including language & cultural barriers, the harsh location & cast leaving set.

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Slow Food Revolution

2002, PG, 52mins, Australia

Slow Food Revolution examines a worldwide movement in food cultivation, which promotes environmental and cultural conservation.

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Facing the Music

Director: Bob Connoly / Robin Anderson
Australia

Rats In the Ranks

Director: Bob Connolly / Robin Anderson
Australia

The Balanda and the Bark Canoes - Making 'Ten Canoes'

Director: Molly Reynolds, Tania Nehme, Rolf de Heer.
Australia

Slow Food Revolution

Director: Carlo Buralli
Australia

Bimblebox

2012, G, 72mins, Australia

The film, Bimblebox, is about much more that the Nature Refuge in Western Central Queensland, facing destruction to make way for Clive Palmer’s China First Coal mine. It is a cautionary tale, exposing the effects of mining in the Hunter Valley.

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The Chifleys of Busby Street

2008, G, 73mins, Australia

A portrait of Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley, his wife Elizabeth, and their spirit kept alive in the NSW country town of Bathurst for five decades since his death.

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Life in Movement

2011, M, 79mins, Australia

Sudden death of dancer/choreographer Tanja Liedtke,brings life into sharp focus.Film about moving creatively through life and loss,Life in Movement is a portrait of an obsessive artist at work and the impact her life and death has on her collaborator

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A Northen Town

208, G, 52mins, Australia

A Northern Town is history viewed through the prism of a radical indigenous owned and operated aged care facility in “Australia’s most racist town”. The residents of the nursing home are 50% white and 50% Aboriginal.

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Bimblebox

Director: Michael C O'Connell
Australia

The Chifleys of Busby Street

Director: Andrew Pike
Australia

Life in Movement

Director: Bryan Mason & Sophie Hyde
Australia

A Northen Town

Director: Rachel Landers
Australia

Angels Of War

1982, PG, 52mins, Australia

In January 1942, Papua New Guinea became the battleground for nearly 2 million foreign soldiers. This film documents the experiences of Papua New Guinea's population during this violent campaign.

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A Nun's New Habit

2008, G, 56mins, Australia

Sister Carmel, a sister of the Good Samaritans, is a fighter for social justice. Along with many of her contemporaries, she is passionately involved with the plight of refugees who were incarcerated in detention for many years and the ongoing psychol

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Black And Dusty

2005, G, 42mins, Australia

BLACK AND DUSTY follows a group of Indigenous competitors as they compete in the annual Finke Desert Race across 250 km of central Australian desert by car, buggie or bike.

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Footy Chicks

2006, M, 52mins, Australia

Off the field its anyones game. The possibility of sex with a football player is a fantasy for many women and a reality for some.Footy Chicks explores the scene off the footy field.

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Angels Of War

Director: Andrew Pike, Hank Nelson, Gavan Daws
Australia

A Nun's New Habit

Director: Robyn Hughan
Australia

Black And Dusty

Director: Vance Glynn
Australia

Footy Chicks

Director: Rebecca Barry
Australia

Beneath Black Skies

2009, PG, 70mins, Australia

BENEATH BLACK SKIES is the powerful story of coal - Australia’s first mineral export – and the men and women who lived the mining life.



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Betelnut Bisnis

2004, PG, 52mins, Filmed in Papua New Guinea. Post-production in Australia

In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a grass roots family makes a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world’s most widely used narcotics.

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The Trouble with St Mary's

2011, G, 75mins, Australia

When Father Peter Kennedy is sacked by the Catholic Church for unorthodox practices, a fight ensues that will result in one of the biggest rifts in the history of the Australian Catholic Church.

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Molly and Mobarak

2003, M, 85mins, Australia

Molly and Mobarak is the story of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee, who is living in the town of Young, in rural NSW.

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Beneath Black Skies

Director: Sandra Pires
Australia

Betelnut Bisnis

Director: Chris Owen
Filmed in Papua New Guinea. Post-production in Australia

The Trouble with St Mary's

Director: Peter Hegedus
Australia

Molly and Mobarak

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Bikpela Bagarap (BIg Damage)

1962185411001, G, 42mins, Australia

Bikpela Bagarap (Big Damage) reveals the human face of logging in Papua New Guinea. It is a tale of exploitation and broken promises, where local people are treated as second-rate citizens in their own country by Malaysian logging companies.

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The Hungry Tide

2011, G, 87mins, Australia

Maria TIimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, has the task of alerting the world to her sinking homeland. Sea level rise is threatening the lives of 110,00 people spread over 33 atolls in this remote corner of the Pacific.

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Dancing With Dictators

2011, PG, 80mins, Australia

Australian publisher, Ross Dunkley started Burma’s leading newspaper The Myanmar Times. The paper comes out weekly in both Burmese and English and every edition is a tactical struggle against the censors.

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Emily In Japan

2009, PG, 80mins, Australia

Behind the scenes of the blockbuster exhibition of paintings by the Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye which toured Japan attracting record crowds.

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Bikpela Bagarap (BIg Damage)

Director: David Fedele
Australia

The Hungry Tide

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Dancing With Dictators

Director: Hugh Piper
Australia

Emily In Japan

Director: Andrew Pike
Australia

Whispering Death - Beaufighter Squadron

1997, G, 89mins, Australia

They joined the RAAF in their thousands: school leavers, apprentice tradesmen, teachers, and lads from many other professions. At a bloody cost, they brought home victory and secured freedom for the future generations of young Australians.

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The Passionate Apprentices

2008, G, 71mins, Australia

Three intimate portraits of a close-knit group of inspiring people who share a passion for perfection. These three artisans and their apprentices live and work in a quiet valley in Tasmania, in the shadow of Sleeping Beauty Mountain.

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The Miscreants of Taliwood

2009, M, 90mins, Australia

Director George Gittoes meets the locals and gets up close to the clash of Fundamentalism and entertainment in this off beat doc-drama mix, which takes us on a totally surprising journey into the forbidden zones of Pakistan’s North West Frontier.

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Lindsay's Reserve

2008, G, 49mins, Australia

Four seasons in one of Australia’s most successful boutique wineries - Paringa Estate Winery on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

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Whispering Death - Beaufighter Squadron

Director: Shane West, Chris Doig
Australia

The Passionate Apprentices

Director: Roger Scholes
Australia

The Miscreants of Taliwood

Director: George Gittoes
Australia

Lindsay's Reserve

Director: Bob Weis and Catherine Reiser
Australia

Magic Harvest

2011, G, 26mins, Australia

Feeding the world’s ever-expanding population is a growing global concern. Where is the land that once grew food? It’s at your own back door!

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Punjabi Love Story

2005, PG, 77mins, Filmed in India, post-produced in Australia

An Australian woman, Jocelyn Ortt-Saeed, lives with her husband Saeed in their home in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Nawaz the cook and Mehnaz the maid, look after the house, and live nearby.

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For Love or Money

1983, G, 104mins, Australia

An investigation and celebration of women's work from white settlement to the present, a story told by Aboriginal and migrant women, convict women and today's women.

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Honeymoon In Kabul

2009, G, 70mins, Filmed in Afghanistan. Produced in Australia.

A documentary about Afghanistan and the difficulties of delivering aid to a country that is suffering from “aid fatigue” and prolonged exposure to Western misunderstanding.

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Magic Harvest

Director: Jeni Lee
Australia

Punjabi Love Story

Director: Kay Rasool
Filmed in India, post-produced in Australia

For Love or Money

Director: Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver, Jeni Thornley
Australia

Honeymoon In Kabul

Director: Ian Hamilton
Filmed in Afghanistan. Produced in Australia.

Tea With Madame Clos

2010, G, 90mins, Filmed in France, produced in Australia

Tea With Madame Clos is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France.

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Hope In A Slingshot

2010, M, 60mins, Filmed in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, produced in Australia

Hope In A Slingshot explores the day-to-day realities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the effect on civilians on both sides. A journey through the underbelly of the occupation of Palestine by Israel.

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In My Father's Country

2007, G, 56mins, Australia

In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia a boy will soon become a man. In My Fathers Country documents a rare family moment in Northern Australia’s Arnhem Land region.

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Into The Shadows

2009, M, 89mins, Australia

Looking from afar, the Australian film industry appears glitzy and glamorous, robust and invincible. Into the Shadows challenges this notion and journeys beyond the glamour to meet the filmmakers who have been bringing Australian films to the screen.

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Tea With Madame Clos

Director: Jane Oehr
Filmed in France, produced in Australia

Hope In A Slingshot

Director: Inka Stafrace
Filmed in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, produced in Australia

In My Father's Country

Director: Tom Murray
Australia

Into The Shadows

Director: Andrew Scarano
Australia

Chasing God

2003, G, 52mins, Australia

A worldwide quest to discover the principle that drives humanity to believe in God - whatever or whoever that may be - from the Vatican to the Ganges, the Wailing Wall to the Dalai Lama Temple and Dome of the Rock Mosque. Narrated by Dawn French.

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Cross Life

2007, PG, 95mins, Australia

Cross Life is a community-produced drama set in Kings Cross, one of Australia’s most socially liberal and culturally diverse places, and grapples with themes of family, identity and freedom.

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Rough Riders

1995, M, 52mins, Australia

A compelling story of two champion Australian rodeo riders, one whose life is lost in a bull-riding accident. The film explores the rituals of competition, the endless travel, the courage and the determination that define the sport of bull-riding.

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The Healing of Bali

2003, PG, 50mins, Filmed in Bali, produced in Australia

The Balinese response to the terrorist bombing of October 2002: an intimate, personal story of grief, recovery and tolerance in an age of terrorism.

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Chasing God

Director: Dylan Burton and Lenny de Vries
Australia

Cross Life

Director: Claire McCarthy
Australia

Rough Riders

Director: Graham Chase
Australia

The Healing of Bali

Director: John Darling
Filmed in Bali, produced in Australia

Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 3

2008, PG, 54mins, Australia

The 1996-2007 Howard government made the most determined attempt to change Australian society since the brief and revolutionary Whitlam era of the early 1970s. Was it successful?

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Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 2

2008, PG, 54mins, Australia

The 1996-2007 Howard government made the most determined attempt to change Australian society since the brief and revolutionary Whitlam era of the early 1970s. Was it successful?

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Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 1

2008, PG, 54mins, Australia

The 1996-2007 Howard government made the most determined attempt to change Australian society since the brief and revolutionary Whitlam era of the early 1970s. Was it successful?

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New Beijing: Reinventing A City

2009, G, 52mins, Australia

Swinging from old to new, this documentary gives a panoramic view of the biggest construction boom in history and charts the modern face of Beijing and its newly iconic buildings.

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Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 3

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 2

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia Part 1

Director: Nick Torrens
Australia

New Beijing: Reinventing A City

Director: Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
Australia

Maidens

1978, PG, 27mins, Australia

A poetic documentary on four generations of maternal family in Tasmania, from the 1890s to 1978, using archival footage and excerpts from key early feminist films to trace significant changes in women’s place in the family and society.

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Island Home Country

2008, E, 52mins, Australia

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present. When the filmmaker returns to Tasmania to make a film about her childhood she doesn’t know much about Aboriginal history,culture or colonisation.

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To The Other Shore

1996, PG, 51mins, Australia

To the Other Shore is a poetic diary film about motherhood. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker's home movies with dramatised therapy sessions and scenes from family life, alongside fairy stories, archival film.

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Waterloo

1981, G, 46mins, Australia

The historic account of the 1970’s battle by residents of this inner Sydney suburb to save the area from slum clearance and redevelopment by public housing authorities.

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Maidens

Director: Jeni Thornley
Australia

Island Home Country

Director: Jeni Thornley
Australia

To The Other Shore

Director: Jeni Thornley
Australia

Waterloo

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Australia Daze

1998, G, 75mins, Australia

On Australia Day 1988, over 20 film crews across the country filmed from midnight to midnight, searching behind the curtain of the official Bicentennial celebrations to reveal the thoughts and attitudes of ordinary Australians.

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Across The Plateau

2007, G, 96mins, Filmed in China. Post-produced in Australia

China used to be called "the bicycle kingdom": this is a bicycle story from modern China. A group of seven friends from Guangzhou share a cycling trek of epic scale, crossing the Tibetan plateau up to the Everest base camp.

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Bran Nue Day

1991, PG, 54mins, Australia

In the Summer of 1969 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl.

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Then The Wind Changed

2011, PG, 57mins, Australia

On 7 February 2009, Australia suffered its worst natural disaster in recorded history. A firestorm of cyclonic fury swept across Victoria and 173 lives were lost. Nowhere was the destruction more terrible than in the tiny hamlet of Strathewen.

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Australia Daze

Director: Pat Fiske
Australia

Across The Plateau

Director: Zhang Zeming and Paul Liu
Filmed in China. Post-produced in Australia

Bran Nue Day

Director: Tom Zubrycki
Australia

Then The Wind Changed

Director: Celeste Geer
Australia

Coniston

2012, M, 57mins, Australia

Known as "the last massacre" Coniston saw the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people across Central Australia in 1928.

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Coniston

Director: David Batty & Francis Jupurrurla Kelly
Australia

 

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