Titles tagged with ‘Aboriginal mythology’

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At The Movies – Series 2 Episode 20, Ten Canoes (2006)

The man of steel is back in Superman Returns, the first film to be reviewed this week on the television magazine program presented by Margaret Pomeranz and David ...

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Dog Dreaming (2001)

A documentary that uses observational footage and paintings to tell the Dreaming story of two ancestral dogs.

The Dream and the Dreaming (2003)

A documentary about the arrival of the Lutheran missionaries in 1877 in central Australia.

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The Last Wave (1977)

David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is a successful Sydney tax lawyer who takes on the defence of five Aboriginal men charged with killing another Aboriginal man. As the city ...

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Message Stick – Babinda Boulders (2005)

Young men fall victim to a waterhole that, according to Aboriginal legend, is a sacred place where the spirit of an Aboriginal woman dwells.

Message Stick – Kurtal: Snake Spirit (2002)

Spider, an 80-year-old Indigenous elder and Wangkatjungka man, returns to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia to perform a cleansing ceremony at a sacred jila, a water ...

Message Stick – Scotty Martin, Rodeo Boy, Don’t Say Sorry (2005)

A story about songman Scotty Martin, who inherited the role of composer of songs. This episode also features rodeo boy Bowman Button, a four-year-old cowboy, and a short ...

Mparntwe Sacred Sites (2004)

A documentary about the sacred sites of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and how the development of Alice Springs affected the cultural traditions of the Arrernte people.

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Ten Canoes (2006)

A narrator (David Gulpilil) instructs us to pay attention, because he is going to tell us a good story. The story takes place in two periods in the ...

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Warren H Williams, the stories, the songs (2004)

A documentary about Arrernte musician Warren H Williams, who shares the source of his musical inspiration and the role of family and culture in his personal and professional ...

We of the Never Never (1982)

In 1902, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor) and her new husband Aeneas (Arthur Dignam) arrive in the Northern Territory to take over management of Elsey Station, a huge ...

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