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My favourite Aboriginal history documentaries:

The First Australians series from SBS is a really fantastic entry point and we use it a lot in teaching. Includes interviews with mob and descendants, multiple episodes covering different themes/eras.

sbs.com.au/firstaustralia…
Servant or Slave - a history of indentured servitude in Australia and the enslavement of Aboriginal girls into domestic labour

sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/a…
Lousy Little Sixpence is an earlier documentary exploring similar themes - the "apprenticeship" system which saw the removal and abuse of young Aboriginal women all throughout the country

aso.gov.au/titles/documen…
Ningla A-Na is a fantastic documentary of the history of the establishment of many crucial sites and services for Aboriginal people in the 1960s and 70s, such as the Tent Embassy, the Aboriginal Legal Service, and the Aboriginal Medical Service

sbs.com.au/ondemand/video…
Babakiueria is an oldie but SUCH a goodie - who else remembers watching this in class being the only blackfella in the room getting dirty looks from the white kids for the rest of the day ey?

A lot of really fantastic films and docos from Ronin Films but this one comes with a CW - this is obviously a very difficult topic for most mob and there is some really upsetting stuff here, but it's also done very respectfully to victims

roninfilms.com.au/feature/790/wh…
Redfern Story is great and if you're from Sydney there's a lot of familiar faces

abc.net.au/tv/programs/re…
Stingray Sisters. This is such an important doco series for the knowledge and passion it shares about protecting homelands from environmental destruction. Vale Alice. I never knew you but was so inspired by your poetry and your work and your spirit.

stingraysisters.com
Warwick Thornton is deadly and I loved this - a history of racism and the Southern Cross

wedontneedamapmovie.com
Another recent one, Occupation Native was bloody hilarious

roninfilms.com.au/feature/15157/…
Hard to track down but a great doco about the later years of Oodgeroo Noonuccal reflecting on her life's work and poetry

imdb.com/title/tt177947…
This is such a good history of the 1967 Referendum and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (of which Oodgeroo Noonuccul was a member)

screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-gui…
Beautiful doco on Kaurna language reawakening

buckskinfilm.com/about-the-film/
After the Apology was put together by some incredible people from the incredible organisation Grandmothers Against Removal, looking at the stories of Aboriginal child removal and the struggle for family to have these kids brought home

aftertheapology.com
Having family in Brewarrina (you can see my aunty in one of the final scenes) this was an incredibly emotional doco for me that speaks to the structural disadvantage that many of our older mob face without services or support

blackfellafilms.com.au/project/in-my-…
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