"Buy land, they're not making it anymore." - Mark Twain's quote become of urgency. The world's farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels or simply buy up land for profit. The film gives an…
Directed by Mitch Torres. Produced by Graeme Isaac. An Aboriginal community from Australia's tropical north west tells the story of the execution of family members at Mowla Bluff in 1916 by police and local pastoralists. They return to the area where the killings took place to ceremonially put…
A film about racism and inequality in a small country town. It is about life, family and the disadvantage of not having opportunities because of the colour of your skin. On the Gordon Estate in Dubbo, the entire community has been given an eviction notice. Within three years, all of their homes will…
Barbicania is a feature-length film capturing a month-long immersion in the life of the Barbican Centre and Estate in London, one of the most representative achievements of brutalist architecture. The film, built as a personal diary, recounts on a daily basis what the directors duo has discovered…
“Fascinating! A story all pigeon racers will love!” Racing Pigeon Digest “Brilliant! Heartwarming!” The Racing Pigeon Jim Jenner's wonderful documentary on a very special pigeon race. Take a trip through over a hundred years of royal racing history, and meet many…
Following the best female boxer alive through her toughest fight - surviving outside of the ring Also available on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/golden-girl/id1157220388?mt=6 Amazon Video: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MA3SHIN Google Play: Coming Soon JMAN.tv: https://jman.tv/film/5640/Golden+Girl Frida…
This remarkable film documents the making of a spear-thrower or woomera by two Pintupi men from the Western Desert cultural group who live in the Lake McDonald area in the central west of the Northern Territory. The two men use stone tools, demonstrating techniques which are becoming rare in this…
TORN FROM THE FLAG is the most accomplished documentary in Hungarian film history and is about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of Communism. The eight-time-award-winning movie participated in the Oscar competition in the "Best Documentary" category. The following…
Originally filmed as an archival record of a Warlpiri (Walbiri) ceremony in 1967 by Roger Sandall, the film footage was re-worked 10 years later by anthropologist Nicolas Peterson and filmmaker, Kim McKenzie, to make this short version for public viewing. Involving large numbers of both men and women,…
“Probably the best film I’ve ever seen about Aboriginal ritual and ceremony, because it’s not simply a record of the ritual itself, but it’s actually about the politics that underlie the staging of the ritual”. – David MacDougall. “Highly recommended for viewing…
Sing along and learn about Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Hernando Cortes, Verrazano, Francisco Coronado, Hernando de Soto, and Juan Cabrillo and their explorations of the New World.
Recollections of life in the old asylums Few people remember what it was like for those who passed through the asylum doors as patients. In this programme people who spent significant periods of time in the old asylums talk about their lives from admission to discharge, including institutional life,…
