Two friends travel to Australia to deliver a large sum of money, but it gets stolen by a mischievous kangaroo. They embark on a hilarious journey to chase down the kangaroo and retrieve their money.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert follows the journey of three friends, two drag queens, and a transgender woman, as they travel across the Australian outback in a battered old bus named Priscilla. Along the way, they face discrimination, homophobia, and their own personal fears, while exploring their individual identities. The road trip becomes a transformative experience for each character, as they find acceptance and friendship in unexpected places.
During World War II, a woman named Jean is taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaya. She and a group of women are forced to march through the jungle and endure various hardships. Jean befriends a fellow prisoner, Joe, and they develop a deep bond. After the war, Jean travels to Australia and learns that Joe is alive and living in Alice Springs. She decides to go to Alice Springs to find Joe and build a life together.
The Alice was an Australian drama television series created by Justin Monjo and Robyn Sinclair. It was set in the central outback city of Alice Springs. The program began as a successful TV movie, that later spun off a regular series. The series proved less popular and was cancelled by the Nine Network on 28 September 2005 after a sharp decline in its ratings. The entire series and original TV movie have since been released on DVD.
A Town Like Alice follows the story of an Englishwoman, Jean Paget, who is captured by the Japanese army during World War II and forced to march through the jungle. She forms a bond with a fellow prisoner of war, Joe Harman, and they endure the hardships together. After the war, Jean inherits a large sum of money and decides to use it to help the people of the town of Alice Springs in Australia, where she had been held captive. She transforms the town and its people, creating a new life for herself in the process.
In Last Cab to Darwin, a terminally ill taxi driver named Rex takes a road trip from Broken Hill to Darwin in order to end his own life using a machine. Along the way, he meets different characters who impact his life and make him question his decision.
Samson and Delilah is a heart-wrenching story of two Aboriginal teenagers, Samson and Delilah, who find solace in each other amidst the challenges of poverty, addiction, and homelessness. As they embark on a journey through the harsh Australian Outback, their love and resilience are put to the test. It is a powerful portrayal of the strength of the human spirit.
In My Blood It Runs is a powerful, observational documentary that follows a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy named Dujuan as he navigates the challenges of growing up in the Northern Territory of Australia. Dujuan is a skilled hunter and healer, deeply connected to his Aboriginal culture and community, but he struggles within the confines of the Australian education system and the welfare system that often fails Indigenous children like him. The film explores Dujuan's journey as he fights for his culture, his education, and his future.
The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together. Audrey Napanangka was born at a time when the world was changing for the people in the Central Australian Desert. Settler colonisation was permeating the desert and forced changes and the fusion of two worlds shifted Audrey’s life forever. Today, Audrey raises young people to walk in many worlds, by centering culture, language, and Law in their lives alongside mainstream education. The intimate footage filmed over 10 years in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Yuendumu and Audrey’s Warlpiri country Mount Theo, showcases a heartwarming story about the power of kinship and family in what is known as Australia.
The Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia's most iconic passenger train. In Australia's first 'Slow TV' documentary, The Ghan doesn't just travel through the heart of Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin, it explores the part the Ghan played in the foundation of modern multicultural Australia.
A portrait of an albino Aboriginal teenager, her feelings of alienation while at a convent boarding school, and her dreams of escape.
This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development.
On June 21 2007, the Howard Federal Government launched an intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. It was one of the most dramatic policy shifts in the history of Aboriginal affairs. Relentless media attention focuses on ideological arguments for and against the Intervention, while the voices of those affected by the policy are rarely heard. For this film more than 40 Alice Springs town camp residents were interviewed in depth over the course of eight months to find out the answer to the question - is it working?
This documentary is about the Afghan cameleer who came to Australia more than a century ago, and travelled across some of the harshest parts of the country. The film explores the historic relationship between the desert and Afghani immigrants in Aboriginal Australia by looking at the role they played in the development of the country and how they helped to set up the railway lines, overland Telegraph line and provided supplies to remote mission stations and farms. By the mid–1800s, exploration in Australia was at its peak with expeditions setting out almost monthly. The race to map the continent, locate natural resources or find new places to settle moved away from the coast and further into the inhospitable heart of Australia. It was soon obvious that the traditional horses and wagons used for such expeditions were not suitable in this strange and foreign land.
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