Titles tagged with ‘religion’
33 titles - sorted by title / by year
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The Art of Healing (2005)
A documentary about an Arrernte woman Agnes Palmer, and her vision of painting the walls of the Santa Teresa church in Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa), an Aboriginal community ...
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also ...
Benny and the Dreamers (1992)
A documentary about the Pintubi people’s first contact with white people, and the affects of dispossession and institutionalisation when the peoples were forced from their lands into missions.
The Book Show – Jim McClelland (1991)
Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton begin this weekly magazine program on Australia Day at Bondi Beach, where they discuss the different meanings of this special day for different ...
Brides of Christ (1991)
A miniseries for television about the lives of a group of women, some of whom are part of a teaching order of nuns and some of whom are ...
The Business of Making Saints (1994)
The documentary is an overview of the process of making saints in the Roman Catholic Church. The documentary includes a cameo of the Blessed Mary MacKillop, potentially Australia’s ...
Compass – Buddha Realms, Part 1 (2001)
Buddhism is one of the world’s oldest religions; it’s older than both Christianity and Islam and, like those faiths, its influence has spread throughout the world. This program ...
Compass – The Cardinal’s Cousin (2005)
Monica is a lesbian and a former nun. She rose to prominence in 2004 when she published a letter she’d sent to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the ...
Compass – Tomorrow’s Islam (2003)
From New York to London and Paris, this program examines how Western Muslims are taking the lead in finding new ways to deal with some of the most ...
Cradle of Creation (1940)
A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, ...
The Dance of the Eyes (c1940)
The Dance of the Eyes is one of a series of travelogues made for screening in the first half of a cinema program in the 1940s and 50s. ...
The Devil’s Playground (1976)
Tom Allen (Simon Burke) is a 13-year-old postulant at a Catholic seminary outside Melbourne. It is 1953, when boys still began training for religious orders in their early ...
Dimpel, Konrad: German Christmas celebrations, Lutheran Sunday School picnic: home movie (c1966)
A silent, black and white home movie containing scenes from a Lutheran Sunday School picnic, filmed by Canberra resident and amateur filmmaker Konrad Dimpel.
Eternity (1994)
Recreating Sydney in the 1930s, the documentary is the story of Sydneysider, Arthur Stace. Arthur had a hard life that deteriorated into alcoholism and despair. In 1930 he ...
From Sand to Celluloid – Payback (1996)
A short drama about payback, the Indigenous traditional law system. After 20 years, Paddy (George Djilaynga) is released from jail into tribal law.
Give Us This Day (1943)
This political advertisement directed by Ken G Hall for Cinesound Productions and the Department of Information compares the difficulties of food rationing suffered by Australian troops stationed in ...
God’s Girls: Stories from an Australian Convent (1992)
The documentary follows the extraordinary changes in the Sisters of Mercy order in Australia from the 1950s to the 1990s. This Roman Catholic religious order had many postulants ...
The Healing of Bali (2003)
Produced one year after the terrorist bombing of a nightclub in Bali, the film examines the impact on the Balinese and their recollection of the event. The film ...
Hula Girls, Imagining Paradise (2005)
The 18th century discovery of Polynesia by both the British and French started a fantasy about island paradises and beautiful unrestrained women. This film traces the creation of ...
Interview with Archbishop Mannix (1962)
Dr Daniel Mannix was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1913 until his death in 1963. He was a man of considerable influence in Australian public life, ...
Island Fettlers (2006)
A documentary that uses historical footage, with current interview and observational footage, about the journey of Torres Strait Islander men who moved to the Pilbara to work on ...
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his ...
Mademoiselle and the Doctor (2004)
The documentary explores euthanasia through the suicide of a healthy 79-year-old woman. The film also interviews Dr Philip Nitschke and follows several people who consult him.
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 ...
Mid-East (1945)
Frank Hurley takes us on a journey to the Middle East and North Africa at the close of the Second World War. He describes aspects of traditional life, ...
Monday Conference – Rhodesia or Zimbabwe (1973)
Robert Moore interviews Senator Glen Sheil from Queensland, who has just returned from a week-long fact-finding tour of Rhodesia. His belief that Rhodesia is a fine and progressive ...
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.
Shifting Sands – My Colour, Your Kind (1998)
A young albino Aboriginal girl (Melissa Middleton) escapes from a convent to return to her mother, her story unfolding in flashback during this journey.
The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934)
A young clergyman, Cyril Maitland (John Longden) falls in love with a beautiful young vamp, Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), in a seaside town. He is engaged to another ...
Temple of Dreams (2007)
Fadi Rahman runs the self-funded ICRA Youth Centre, operating out of a converted Masonic Temple in the heart of Sydney’s Muslim community. When the Cronulla riots take place ...
Tombstone Unveiling (2000)
An observational documentary about the Torres Strait tradition of unveiling the tombstone of the deceased a year after death. Tombstone Unveiling is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series ...
Winners – Quest Beyond Time (1985)
One day, while hang gliding, Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is transported 500 years into the future. There, he is asked to help a primitive pagan community to cure thteir ...
Yellow Fella (2005)
A documentary narrated by Tommy E Lewis, intercut with historical footage, tells of the journey of Tommy E Lewis to find the grave of his white father.
