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Black Robe: The party sets off - Digital Restoration
The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford. You can rent or purchase the full film from Umbrella Entertainment. In this scene, Father Laforgue (Lothaire...
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Benny and the Dreamers: Creation
Benny Tjapaltarri and Mick Ngamurarri tell us the significance of the Dreaming, and how the Dreaming ancestors created the landscape. Summary by Romaine Moreton.
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Black Robe: The shaman
Native women grab the hat of Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) and play with it, enabling a diminutive shaman named Mestigoit (Yvan Labelle) to sneak up and confront him. Summary by Lynden Barber...
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Shifting Sands - My Colour, Your Kind: Born into light
A young albino girl (Melissa Middleton) is walking along a desert road and a truck pulls up beside her. The driver (Rob Wenske) asks if she wants a lift. In flashback, a nun (Sylvia Merrick) reads...
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Shifting Sands - My Colour, Your Kind: Rugged cross
The clip opens with billowing curtains, a statuette of Christ and the close-up of a young albino girl (Melissa Middleton). In flashback the young albino girl closes her eyes as her mother (Christine...
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First Australians: Freedom For Our Lifetime - A 'final solution', Episode 3
Historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation describes the Protection Board as the real enemy of Aboriginal people, particularly in relation to the Half-Caste Act developed by the...
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First Australians: Unhealthy Government Experiment - The killing times, Episode 5
Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation sets the historical context of the clip. Western Australian police are reacting to calls from cattle farmers to enact revenge for loss of stock at the...
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First Australians: Her Will to Survive - 'It was the best thing to do', Episode 2
It is 1830 and European settlement has begun in Tasmania. Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the resulting inter-racial tension and violence dubbed the Black War, the harsh world Truganini is...
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First Australians: Freedom For Our Lifetime - 'Soothing pillow for a dying race', Episode 3
  Narrator Rachel Perkins outlines the formation of an Aboriginal Protection Board and the establishment of reserves around Victoria. Margaret Gardiner of the Wurundjeri clan, Carolyn Briggs, a...
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First Australians: No Other Law - 'The Altyerra is their life and their law', Episode 4
Narrator Rachel Perkins tells the Dreamtime stories of the desert people in Central Australia. The importance of the belief system and sacred law of the Arrernte people, Altyerra, is explained by...
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