TEA WITH MADAME CLOS
$3.99
A film by Jane Oehr. French language with English subtitles TEA WITH MADAME CLOS is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years…
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- Documentary
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- Afghanistan +more
TALKING BROKEN
$3.99 - $25.00
A film by Frances Calvert. The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s ‘other’ Indigenous minority. They remained virtually unknown until 1988 when they made their brief claim for independence. Since first contact with whites in 1871, they have been controlled by benign but effective…
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- Documentary
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TAKEOVER [from the AIATSIS Collection]
$3.99
DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM MATERIALS! One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal…
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- Documentary
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TAGGED
$3.99
A film by Kay Donovan. TAGGED is the story of four young people growing up in Sydney's western suburbs at a time when the public spotlight is on the notorious suburb of Bankstown. While the media runs hot with stories of youth crime and stereotypes of gangs, drugs and drive-bys, these teenagers…
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- Documentary
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SYDNEY AT WAR
$3.99 - $25.00
At midnight on Sunday May 31, 1942, three Japanese midget submarines broke through Sydney Harbour's defences and launched a surprise attack on an ill-prepared city. During that night of confusion and violence, 21 Australian and 6 Japanese service personnel lost their lives. Sydney At War recounts…
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- Documentary
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SUNNY AND THE DARK HORSE [from the AIATSIS Collection]
$3.99
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) The story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for “picnic racing” on bush tracks in New South Wales. SUNNY AND THE DARK HORSE was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in north-eastern New South Wales.…
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- Documentary
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STRONG MEN OF NGUIU
$4.00 - $17.50
Directed by Chris Bamford. Produced by Michael Tear. The problems that confront the remote communities on the Tiwi Islands of the Torres Strait are similar to those that confront young people everywhere – but isolation and a lack of things to do make the young people of these communities particularly…
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- Documentary
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STRING PROJECT, THE
$4.00 - $17.50
A film photographed and directed by Andrew Pike. Late in 2013 the Music Engagement Program (MEP), of the School of Music at the Australian National University, initiated a practical instrumental project in music and skill-sharing called the MEP String Project. The project was made possible by a fellowship…
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- Documentary
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Bizarre: A Circus Story
$3.99 - $5.99
An intimate look at the extraordinary life of Master Lu Yi, hailed as the father of modern acrobatics, and the vast community of big-top lovers who share his dream of a thriving US circus industry.
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- Documentary
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In the Face of Evil
$7.99 - $15.99
More than a traditional war film, In the Face of Evil plays out on an epic scale... from the back-lots of Hollywood, to the jungles of Central America; from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the palaces of the Kremlin; to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of a divided Berlin... In the Face of Evil…
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- Documentary
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FOR MYSELF AND THE OTHERS - Paola Beate von Pückler and Egypt
$1.99 - $9.99
In German and Arabic with subtitles in German, English and French. The life of the 70 year old Paola Beate von Pückler, semiotition, and goat herder is the main line of this documentary. Aside from the villages, she lives in a Moor Tower inmidst the Andalusian desert, surrounded by her goats,…
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- Documentary
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- Afghanistan +more