This is probably the film’s most controversial scene, as well as the most harrowing, partly because it’s different to the way Doris Pilkington Garimara describes her abduction in the book.

Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the apology to the Stolen Generations given by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008.

Footage of Beagle Bay Mission. Historical black-and-white footage of Aboriginal children.

Historical footage of a plaster cast being made of an Aboriginal man’s face by anthropologists.

Historical news footage of Aboriginal girls removed from their families and being adopted by a white family as a result of the assimilation policies.

At the Moore River Aboriginal settlement, Molly (Everlyn Sampi) is called out of the assembly to be inspected by Mr AO Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the Protector of Aborigines.

As Constable Riggs (Jason Clarke) arrives, Maude (Ningali Lawford) realises he has come to take the children. They run, but Riggs cuts off their escape route and seizes the children one by one.

The multi-award-winning Archie Roach song 'Took the Children Away' (1990), about the Stolen Generations, was added to the NFSA's Sounds of Australia in 2013.

Archie tells the story of reuniting with his older sister Alma to Kutcha Edwards on Kutcha's Carpool Koorioke.

Eighteen-year-old Brianne Yarran is a talented dancer in her last year of high school.