Issues / ThemesHere you will find information, organised by issues or themes, about areas of interest where existing documentary work targets specific groups and audiences. Documentary Australia shows the broad range of work already being made by documentary filmmakers in Australia and how it intersects with the interests of many grantmakers and charities. Search Results LegacyThis documentary follows one family, living in one of the oldest and most dangerous public housing p...  Welcome 2 My Deaf WorldBethany Rose and Scott Masterson are schoolmates, a couple of energetic and charming teenagers who s...  Freedom MachinesFreedom Machines demonstrates how assistive technology can change the lives of people with disabilit...  Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier ReefBy 2010, forty per cent of the world’s coral reefs may be dead. By 2030, half of the Great Barrier R...  The Broad Street History ProjectThe Broad Street History Project is a collection of documentaries made by middle and high school stu...  TraffickedHaunted by a decade-old case, a former police officer investigates how a young Thai girl was sold as...  All About OliveAll About Olive is the story of Olive Riley going back to Broken Hill where she was born in 1899. Ol...  The New HeroesThe New Heroes, hosted by Robert Redford, is a four-hour PBS series that tells the stories of ‘socia...  Following The FencelineThis is an important documentary about breast cancer and an innovative approach to public awareness ...  Blackman's HousesThis film is a re-examination of Tasmanian history. In particular it explored the reasons for the de...  Make It RealA story of determination and hope. Like Harry Potter, Kevin is an orphan. But unlike Harry, he is re...  Hephzibah“The story of Hephzibah Menuhin is as rich as a novel by Henry James”.  No Limits (series)No Limits is a community television show that looks at living life to the fullest with a disability....  The President Versus David HicksIn December, 2001, Australian David Hicks was picked up in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance and ...  Inheritance: A Fisherman’s StoryIn the year 2000, the Hungarian river Tisza is flooded with tons of cyanide from an Australian-Roman...  Crossing The LineWhen two young, non-indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their p...  Dhakiyarr vs the KingThe family of the great Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda is searching for answers. Seventy years af...  Two In A TinnieScientist Tim Flannery and satirist John Doyle embark on a quixotic journey down the Murray and Darl...  The Civil WarThe Civil War is an ambitious documentary series by Ken Burns that tells the story of the bloodiest ...  Dying To Leave"Dying to Leave" explores the current worldwide boom in illicit migration and human trafficking. Ev...  Year Of The DogsA year in the life of the Footscray Bulldogs provides an extraordinary insight into the inner sanctu...  Ayen’s Cooking School for African MenThe women of Sudan do not allow their men into the kitchen because, (amongst other reasons) they bel...  Outsourced!Outsourcing is the new frontier of globalisation, pitting call-centre workers around the world again...  HatredHATRED is a wide ranging documentary that travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Austr...  Silma's SchoolFacing the Music meets Erin Brockovich and The Castle in a moving, funny and suspenseful feature len...  Saving Andrew MallardSAVING ANDREW MALLARD is the story of a man allegedly betrayed by the West Australian justice system...  A Well-Founded FearThe Australian Government sends back asylum seekers it doesn’t think are refugees. International law...  Blue VinylBlue Vinyl follows filmmaker Judith Helfland as she sets off on a quest uncovering the toxic ramific...  Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product CertificationBUYER BE FAIR: THE PROMISE OF PRODUCT CERTIFICATION takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK...  Chunky Move: Just Add WaterChunky Move: Just Add Water examines the pressures and tensions in the lead up to the premiere of a ...  Plumpton High BabiesPlumpton High, in Sydney’s outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a prog...  Divorce StoriesAround 200,000 Australians marry every year. Over 43 per cent of these marriages will fail. This thr...  MariaMaria parallels life in Australia with the maelstrom of Czechoslovakia’s history. It links three gen...  Everest Sea to SummitThe idea of climbing Everest from Sea level was conceived by Michael Dillon and he persuaded an Aust...  Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa ParksOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sparked a revolution by sitting still.  Painting With Light In A Dark WorldFor over a decade, street photographer Peter Darren Moyle has been trawling the depths of Sydney’s u...  It's Like That“It’s like that” is a 7 minute animated documentary made by the Southern Ladies Animation Group (S.L...  My Country, My CountryIraqis line up to cast their vote in the January 2005 elections. Inspired by a New Yorker article wr...  Chinese Take Away"CHINESE TAKE AWAY is a cinematic adaptation of an acclaimed physical theatre show that tells the st...  Techno TribalIn Vis à vis: TECHNO TRIBAL, two highly-committed individuals from different parts of the world take...  No Place To LiveThis film looks into the housing issues facing urban Chicago now and in the future and at the histor...  A Hard RainAustralia sits on 40% of the world’s known uranium supplies and is about to give the green light to ...  The Man Who Stole My Mother’s FaceTwo days before Christmas in 1988, a woman was sexually assaulted and savagely beaten in her home by...  A Calcutta ChristmasDuring India's celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, filmmaker Maree Delofski...  More Than HorseplayPrécis: More Than Horseplay is straight from the horse’s mouth. Experts explore the benefits of hors...  Mabo - Life Of An Island ManOn June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie "Koiki" Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his clai...  The Burning SeasonEvery year, there is a burning season in Indonesia. Across the vast archipelago, swathes of rainfore...  Omar and PeteOmar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more tha...  HopeFour hundred people were pitched into the sea when their people-smuggling boat from Indonesia sank i...  Birth RitesBirth Rites draws powerful comparisons between birth in outback Australia and the icy regions of Can...  Music From The Inside OutThe intersection of art and life are at the core of MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT™, Academy Award® nomin...  Molly and MobarakMolly and Mobarak is the story of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee, who is living in the town ...  River Of DreamsRIVER OF DREAMS explores the radically divergent approaches to ‘country’ between Indigenous and non-...  RefugeesFor Mike Siv, the trip begins innocently enough: "Me and my homies, David and Paul, we're going to C...  Swim Across AustraliaThis is a film about a group of ordinary Australians who come up with a crazy idea to swim across Au...  Johnny Warren’s Football MissionFor half a century Johnny Warren was synonymous with soccer in Australia. His often lonely mission ...  The OasisTough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives – these are the young people of Oasis, a gr...  knot at homeNarratives, songs, stories, vignettes of memory ; images from young people and their families from a...  Nobody’s ChildrenA documentary insight into the growing youth underclass in Australia - with a major focus on homeles...  Us MobUs Mob is a 7-part 'choose your own adventure' series set in the central desert of Australia.  Trembling Before G_dShot in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, London, Miami, and San Francisco, Trembling Before G_d exp...  Hospitals Don’t Burn DownFire breaks out after midnight in a multi-storey hospital, cutting the top floors off from escape. I...  BlindsightSet against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of...  Lets Get RealLet’s Get Real explores the problem of bullying in middle schools in the US in a honest and thought-...  The Tenth DancerUnder the brutal regime of Pol Pot over ninety percent of Cambodia’s artists were killed, including ...  The Isabellas - The Long MarchOn New Year's Eve 1991, Chen Xing Liang landed in a wooden fishing boat - code named ISABELLA on the...  Return To EdenFollows the progress of the most ambitious counter-attack on ferals ever mounted in Australia and th...  Downside UpDownside Up is about how MASS MoCA, America’s largest museum of contemporary art, has transformed Ma...  Telling The TruthIn November 2006, former US vice president Al Gore traveled to Australia with an explicit purpose, t...  Child SoldiersA telling global exposé of children who have become soldiers, who have been through the trauma of ch...  The Good The Bad and The Ugg BootA spaghetti western following a heroic bunch of small family businesses, as they take on a giant US ...  Least Said, Soonest MendedThrough telling the story of my own family and that of my twin sister in particular, this film explo...  Tosca - A Tale of Love & TortureMid-winter and money is tight at Opera Australia as rehearsals begin for Puccini’s perennial favouri...  Fog Of WarWinner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary  Half LifeThis compelling and beautifully crafted film reveals the effects of United States nuclear testing on...  Sculpture by the Sea : 10th AnniversarySCULPTURE BY THE SEA (SXS) is a unique sculpture exhibition along the Bondi Beach to Tamarama coasta...  Waging a LivingIf you work hard, you get ahead. That's the American Dream in a nutshell — no matter what your race,...  But We Are StrongBUT WE ARE STRONG tells the stories of five young women who survived Sierra Leone’s civil war. This...  Frank Hurley – the Man Who Made HistoryOne of the last great imperial adventurers, Frank Hurley captured some of the earliest images of the...  Alone Across AustraliaOn the 18th May 2001 Jon Muir and his dog, Seraphine, began an odyssey to cross Australia on foot, f...  Lost Boys of SudanLost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugee...  4In four corners of the world, in the four seasons, four brilliant violinists take us on one extraord...  Remembering RainIn the face of the worst drought on record, rural Australians have gambled their dreams on the chanc...  Cannibal ToursWhen tourists journey to the furthermost reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, is it the i...  Raising ChildrenThe Raising Children DVD is a comprehensive parenting resource, covering all the basics from birth t...  The Real Dirt on Farmer John"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and ...  An Inconvenient TruthHumanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right...  Losing LaylaLOSING LAYLA is a video diary documentary that bears witness to a loss that has often been unrecogni... The Fog Of WarThe Fog of War is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defence, ...  An Evergreen IslandIn 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that w...  Land Mines - A Love StoryLand Mines - A Love Story is the latest film from Dennis O'Rourke (Half Life, Cannibal Tours, The Go...  900 NeighboursIn February 2006 Australia’s media was rocked by headlines, SKELETON MAN FOUND IN HOUSING COMMISSION...  Our Brother JamesJames Dalmann killed himself in 1996. He was 20. In this very personal film, director Jessica Dougla...  ThirstThirst is a documentary by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman that questions global water privatisation...  Battleground MinnesotaMinnesota hip-hop activist Shakademic takes a journey through the election campaign in his hotly con...  Political FootballThe story of six Wallabies, who after touring South Africa in 1969, realized that playing Internatio...  Witch HuntInvestigative documentary that exposes the corrupt foundations of the so-called ‘Greek Conspiracy’ d...  KanyiniKANYINI is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in...  The MascotThe Mascot is the story of one man's struggle to discover his stolen identity. It traces the journey...  HurtHURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns have been...  Born into BrothelsAmidst the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another si...  Children Of The CrocodileChildren of the Crocodile explores cultural identity, resistance and survival through the intimate s...  My Khmer HeartIt is estimated that over half a million children were orphaned during the genocide committed by the...  FarmingvilleFarmingville is an 87 minute documentary by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini about the complex ...  A FIGHTING CHANCENermin Sabanovic is a strong willed man. At 42 years of age, his main goal in life is to win a world...  HurtDomestic violence in Australia is a horrifyingly widespread, but almost entirely hidden, phenomenon....  Bomb HarvestLaos: Australian bomb disposal specialist Laith Stevens has to train a new young “big bomb” team to ...  Vietnam NursesArriving in Saigon amidst the stifling heat and the overwhelming US military presence, six young Aus...  In The Company Of Actors“From a rehearsal room in Sydney through to opening night in New York, a company of actors reveals t... |
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