You can access the films below via the library using your RMIT student/staff number and password.. Each link will take you to a Library record where you can then access the film via a database link. If you encounter any issues with accessing the following films please contact our team via the Ask the Library.
A feature documentary which tells a story of allyship, environmentalism and cultural rebirth; a picture of what reconciliation between Aboriginal and European Australians might look like. Directed by Bill Code, story told by the late Uncle Jack Charles (Bunurong and Wiradjuri)
A documentary series (3 episodes) that tells the extraordinary story of Australia's first wars, and calls for the First Peoples who died in these conflicts to be acknowledged by the nation and officially recognised by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. It investigates the frontier conflicts between 1788 and 1928 and their impact, asking Australians who we are, and what we want to become. Directed by Rachel Perkins.
A story of Warlpiri woman Audrey and her Sicilain partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together.
Directed by Dean Gibson (Guugu Yimithirr) this documentary connects the relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experiences by Indigenous Australians - the two key drivers of incarceration.
Surviving aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength, the Maralinga people fight to retain their country. These lands have been home to the Maralinga people for over sixty thousand years. This deep relationship with their country was challenged by the arrival of a colonising force that lead to the institutionalisation of the Maralinga people in the Ooldea Mission in the 1920s. Directed by Larissa Behrendt (Euahleyai / Gamillaroi)