Australian Aboriginal - We of the Never Never
by deepfigure | created - 04 Dec 2012 | updated - 15 Mar 2022 | PublicThe four dimensions of aboriginal life. Kanyini - The word Kanyini means responsibility and unconditional love for all of creation and it envelops the four principles of aboriginal life:
Tjukurrpa – Creation Period (or what non-aboriginals call ‘dreamtime’)
Kurunpa – Spirit, Soul, Psyche
Walytja – Family, Kinship
Ngura – Land, Home, Place or Mother
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1. Samson & Delilah (II) (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton
Votes: 3,762
2. Kanyini (2006)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary
Australian Aborigine Bob Randall presents his spiritual philosophy.
Director: Melanie Hogan | Star: Bob Randall
Votes: 73
3. We of the Never Never (1982)
G | 134 min | Biography, Drama
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.
Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Votes: 469
4. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan
Votes: 30,243 | Gross: $6.17M
5. Beneath Clouds (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Lena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors, Terry Dahlstron
Votes: 1,186
6. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
R | 100 min | Drama
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,630
7. Here I Am (III) (2011)
90 min | Drama, Family
'Here I Am' is driven by three generations of Aboriginal women - Karen Lee Burden, her mother Lois and her daughter Rosie. When Karen is released from prison, through a series of chance ... See full summary »
Director: Beck Cole | Stars: Shai Pittman, Marcia Langton, Quinaiha Scott, Bruce R. Carter
Votes: 140
8. Mad Bastards (2010)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
TJ's quest to find the son he's never known, takes him on a journey across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape. On the road, TJ questions his life of violence... he meets a host of ... See full summary »
Director: Brendan Fletcher | Stars: Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, Greg Tait, Ngaire Pigram
Votes: 555
9. Walkabout (1971)
GP | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon
Votes: 27,321 | Gross: $0.02M
10. Ten Canoes (2006)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.
Directors: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr | Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu
Votes: 5,106 | Gross: $0.28M
11. First Australians (2008)
52 min | Documentary
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest ... See full summary »
Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Ernie Dingo, Ursula Yovich, Richard Frankland
Votes: 121
12. The Tall Man (2011)
79 min | Documentary
Documentary about the events on Palm Island that follow the death of local indigenous man Cameron Doomadgee on November 19, 2004.
Director: Tony Krawitz
Votes: 164
13. Toomelah (2011)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama
In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Michael Connors, Dorothy Cubby
Votes: 458
14. Jandamarra's War (2011 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
In Jandamarra's War, we learn how in the 1890's the European colonialists arrive in the Kimberley with vast herds of sheep and cattle, determined to make their fortune by feeding a rapidly ... See full summary »
Director: Mitch Torres | Stars: Ernie Dingo, Darcy Anderson, David Beurteaux, Emmanuel J. Brown
Votes: 16
15. Bastardy (2008)
83 min | Documentary
An intimate documentary of Jack Charles, a.k.a. "Jackie", the legendary Australian aboriginal actor who co-founded Australia's first indigenous theatre company and struggled with his identity later in life.
Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson | Star: Jack Charles
Votes: 186
16. Nice Coloured Girls (1987)
16 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a ... See full synopsis »
Director: Tracey Moffatt | Stars: Gayle Mabo, Cheryl Pitt, Janelle Court, Fiona George
Votes: 84
17. Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
19 min | Short, Drama
A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying old white mother till the mother dies.
Director: Tracey Moffatt | Stars: Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, Jimmy Little, Alkira Fitzgerald
Votes: 296
18. Two Bob Mermaid (1996)
Drama, Short
Director: Darlene Johnson | Stars: Carrie Prosser, Tessa Leahy, Jie Pitman, Stephen Blair
Votes: 19
19. BabaKiueria (1986 TV Movie)
29 min | Comedy, Drama
Role reversal study of the historically inaccurate "plight" of Australian Aborigines in modern Anglo-Saxon society. Indigenous "whities" [sic] are being persecuted by racist black people ... See full summary »
Director: Don Featherstone | Stars: Michelle Torres, Bob Maza, Kevin Smith, Cecily Polson
Votes: 238
20. Mabo (2012 TV Movie)
105 min | Biography, Drama
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Director: Rachel Perkins | Stars: Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Ewen Leslie, Tom Budge
Votes: 364
21. Around the Block (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Sarah Spillane | Stars: Hunter Page-Lochard, Christina Ricci, Aaron L. McGrath, Elias Reese
Votes: 1,444
22. The Tracker (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page
Votes: 3,292
23. The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
PG | 98 min | Drama
Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Kylie Belling
Votes: 443 | Gross: $0.15M
24. Yolngu Boy (2001)
88 min | Adventure, Drama
An Indigenous teen and his friends embark on a challenging journey to Darwin from Arnhem Land to meet a tribal leader with the aim of creating a better future after troubles take them away from their dreams.
Director: Stephen Johnson | Stars: John Sebastian Pilakui, Nathan Daniels, Sean Mununggurr, Lirrina Mununggurr
Votes: 378
25. The Last Wave (1977)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Votes: 11,018
26. Our Generation (2010)
73 min | Documentary, History, News
A documentary on the Australian Aboriginal struggle for their land, culture and freedom - a story that has been silenced by the Government and mainstream media. Featuring the stories of the... See full summary »
Directors: Sinem Saban, Damien Curtis | Stars: Jonny Burrmula, Judy Djanunbe, Djiniyini Gondarra, Marcus Lacey
Votes: 54
27. Storm Boy (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Family
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Directors: Henri Safran, Ian Goddard | Stars: Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Judy Dick
Votes: 1,516
28. Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)
52 min | Documentary, Drama
Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations in the 1930's, in particular the Aborigines Progressive Association.
Directors: Gerald Bostock, Alec Morgan | Stars: Geraldine Briggs, Flo Caldwell, Chicka Dixon, Bill Reid
Votes: 29
29. Charlie's Country (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Drama
Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford, Lizzie Durrurrnga
Votes: 2,791
30. Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
A documentary about an Aboriginal man living in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia that maps out his ancestors' spiritual connection to the land and his family's continuing custodianship of it.
Director: Nicole Ma
Votes: 63
31. Satellite Boy (2012)
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ten-year-old Pete lives with his grandfather in an old abandoned outdoor cinema in the desert. When the old drive-in is threatened with demolition by developers, Pete and a friend set off on an epic journey in the hopes of saving his home.
Director: Catriona McKenzie | Stars: David Gulpilil, Cameron Wallaby, Joseph Pedley, Rohanna Angus
Votes: 444
32. Tracks (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 112 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl, Philip Dodd
Votes: 31,708 | Gross: $0.51M
33. First Australians (2008)
52 min | Documentary
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest ... See full summary »
Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Ernie Dingo, Ursula Yovich, Richard Frankland
Votes: 121
34. Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)
52 min | Documentary, Drama
Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations in the 1930's, in particular the Aborigines Progressive Association.
Directors: Gerald Bostock, Alec Morgan | Stars: Geraldine Briggs, Flo Caldwell, Chicka Dixon, Bill Reid
Votes: 29
35. Servant or Slave (2016 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A confronting insight into the history and legacy of the domestic servitude enforced upon Aboriginal girls in Australia, told through the stories of five women and shot with admirable craft and humanity by documentarian Steven McGregor.
Director: Steven McGregor | Stars: Larissa Behrendt, Cheyenne Cruse, Valerie Linow, Adelaide Wenberg
Votes: 61
36. Gurrumul (2017)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
Director: Paul Damien Williams | Stars: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Mark Grose, Michael Hohnen, Sting
Votes: 291
37. The Australian Dream (2019)
105 min | Documentary, Drama, Sport
"The Australian Dream" is a theatrical feature documentary that uses the remarkable and inspirational story of AFL legend Adam Goodes as the prism through which to tell a deeper, more powerful story about race, identity, and belonging.
Director: Daniel Gordon | Stars: Adam Goodes, Stan Grant, Nova Peris, Gilbert McAdam
Votes: 947
38. Freeman (II) (2020)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Cathy Freeman's win at Sydney 2000 is one of the greatest collective experiences in Australian modern history. Twenty years later, FREEMAN explores the beauty of this singular moment and celebrates the power of human connection.
Directors: Laurence Billiet, Stephen Page | Star: Cathy Freeman
Votes: 82
39. In My Blood It Runs (2019)
84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Carol Turner, Dujuan Turner, Megan Turner
Votes: 459
40. My Name is Gulpilil (2021)
101 min | Documentary, Biography
Early in 2017, Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds. And he continues to do so with probably his last great work, My Name is Gulpilil.
Director: Molly Reynolds | Stars: David Gulpilil, Sara Bailey, Mary Dhapalany, Peter Djigirr
Votes: 286
41. Etched in Bone (2018)
73 min | Documentary
Jacob Nayinggul is a charismatic elder from Gunbalanya, an isolated settlement in Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Aboriginal people in this area believe that the landscape is inhabited by ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Thomas | Stars: Martin Thomas, Jacob Nayinggul
Votes: 9
42. High Ground (2020)
104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.
Director: Stephen Johnson | Stars: Guruwuk Mununggurr, Wakarra Gondarra, Mark Garrawurra, Neville Namarnyilk
Votes: 2,485
43. Contact (II) (2009)
79 min | Documentary, History
In 1964, Yuwali was 17 when her first contact with white men was filmed. Her group of twenty women and children were the last aboriginal mob living traditionally, without any knowledge of ... See full summary »
Directors: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean | Stars: Grant Judson, Thelma Judson, Yuwali Nixon
Votes: 55
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