Titles tagged with ‘immigration’
38 titles - sorted by title / by year
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Always a Visitor (2000)
A personal journey by 30-year-old Turkish Australian Muslim Kuranda Seyit. He discusses his relationship with his father and his siblings, and talks about growing up in Emu Plains ...
Australia Daze (1988)
An observational documentary shot on the bicentennial anniversary of Australia’s European settlement. Twenty-nine directors working all over Australia have contributed segments as Australians celebrated 26 January 1988. Dissent ...
Billal (1996)
Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo–Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is ...
Bitter Herbs and Honey (1981)
The anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe in the 1930s triggered a big migration. This film explores the story of those Jews who settled in Carlton, an inner suburb of ...
City in the Sun (1946)
This documentary directed by Alasdair Loch, possibly used to promote Australia as a destination for migration, intends to reflect the ‘mood of metropolitan life’ by showing the bustle ...
Colour Bars (1997)
The documentary examines the attitudes of four ethnic youths – Lebanese, Chinese, Indian and Greek – to school and to other ethnic groups of teenagers.
Compass – Embracing the Enemy (2005)
Turkish immigrants to Australia in the 1970s immediately felt connected through the Anzac Day marches but found they were forbidden to march with the Australians. Thus began a ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 2 (1985)
This drama is based on a true story about how a group of refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Britain were sent to Australia on the ship The ...
The Dunera Boys – Episode 3 (1985)
This four part miniseries is based on the true story of a group of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany only to be treated as enemy aliens when ...
Floating Life (1996)
As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia ...
The Home Song Stories (2007)
In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, ...
In Limbo (2002)
The documentary follows Australian-Vietnamese lawyer Hoi Trinh, as he attempts to secure Australian citizenship for 2,000 Vietnamese boat people who fled to the Philippines when the Vietnam War ...
The Joys of the Women (1993)
A group of Italian women from Fremantle, Western Australia, formed a choir called ‘The Joys of the Women’ (Le Gioie Delle Donne), to sing traditional and contemporary songs. ...
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an ...
The Leaving of Liverpool (1992)
The story of two young lives caught up in the British child migration schemes of the 1950s. Lily (Christine Tremarco) and Bert (Kevin Jones), are transported from an ...
Letters From Poland (1978)
Set in Sydney in 1950, Letters From Poland follows a few months in the life of Dana (Basia Bonkowski), a young woman who’s recently migrated from Poland. Dana ...
Letters to Ali (2004)
A documentary feature by Clara Law that follows an Australian family on their journey of friendship with fifteen-year-old ‘Ali’, an Afghan asylum seeker detained at the Port Hedland ...
Lucky Miles (2007)
An Indonesian fishing boat dumps six Cambodians and six Iraqis on the remote coast of northwest Australia, in 1990. Muluk (Sawung Jabo), the captain, tells them to climb ...
Molly and Mobarak (2003)
Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to ...
Nazi Supergrass (1993)
The Australian Nationalist Movement conducted a campaign of racial hatred on Perth for three years from 1986. They were opposed to Asians, Jews and Blacks. They bombed Asian ...
On Stream (1954)
This industrial documentary made between 1951 and 1954 by the Shell Film Unit Australia retraces the development, construction and opening of the Shell Oil Refinery on the outskirts ...
Raccolta D’Inverno, Winter’s Harvest (1979)
The documentary records the traditional Italian community event of slaughtering a pig, butchering it for the meat, making sausages and having a feast with dancing enjoyed by the ...
Reunion (1998)
Producer, writer, director Lisa Wang tells the story of her family through home movies, interviews with her mother, siblings and relatives, and historical footage of Melbourne. It is ...
Romper Stomper (1992)
Hando (Russell Crowe) and his best mate Davey (Daniel Pollock) lead a rampaging gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Footscray, Melbourne, during the 80s. They beat up young Vietnamese ...
Seeking Asylum (2002)
A report on the status and treatment of asylum seekers in 2002. The documentary uses archival footage, interviews with asylum seekers, people involved in care capacities and politicians. ...
Snowy Hydro – Conquest of the Rivers (1957)
Produced in 1957 by the SMHEA photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film promotes the Snowy Mountains Scheme as a source of employment for local Australian recruits.
Snowy Hydro – Conservation in the Snowy Mountains (1955)
Produced in 1955 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film traces the history of soil erosion in the Snowy ...
Snowy Hydro – Sound and Safe (1963)
Produced in 1963 by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Authority (SMHEA) photographic unit (Harry Malcolm et al.), the film lays out safety procedures for hard rock tunnelling.
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Flows Inland (1954)
Produced in 1954 by the Australian National Film Board, the film presents the aims and objectives of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and looks at the preliminary phase operations.
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)
Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour.
Some of Many: Germans in Australia (1983)
A documentary that traces the changing fortunes of German immigrants to Australia from the first fleet to the late 1980s. Australian-based German filmmaker Juergen Corleis interviews migrants in ...
Temple on the Hill (1997)
The film looks at a number of people from an Indian community in Northern New South Wales who have chosen to marry outside their own ethnic community, and ...
They’re a Weird Mob (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari), an Italian sports journalist, arrives in Australia to find his uncle’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He gets a job as a ...
Touch the Sun – Captain Johnno (1988)
Captain Johnno (Damien Walters) is a ten-year-old with a hearing impairment, and always in trouble. Living in a small fishing town in South Australia in the 1950s, his ...
Touch the Sun – The Gift (c1988)
Sophia (Vicki Serbos) and Nikos (Nicholas Hatjiandreou), two Greek-Australian kids living with their family in inner Melbourne, win a plot of land in Western Australia as a prize ...
Waterfront – Episode 1 (1984)
It’s 1928 and the waterfront unions in Melbourne are gearing up for a struggle with the shipowners who are trying to take away hard-won wages and working conditions ...
A World for Children (c1962)
A documentary about the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre in regional Victoria as experienced through the eyes of three children.
Yanks Down Under (1983)
This documentary, made in 1983, profiles some Americans who have made Australia their home, and become successful in the entertainment business. It features people like Don Lane, Marcia ...
