Gulpilil.
3) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong. Narrated by veteran Aborigine actor David Gulpilil.
Pub. Date
2002.
Formats
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, traveling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by...
5) Storm Boy
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The movie is based on the beloved book about the emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
6) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
7) Storm Boy
Series
Pub. Date
1980
Description
An adventure about a boy who learns about life from an adopted pelican, an Aboriginal, and his own father.
8) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The movie is based on the beloved book about the emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
10) Goldstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
Pub. Date
2007, c2001, c1988, c1986
Description
Three films with the hero from the land Down Under. In the first film, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is a free spirited crocodile hunting Australian who follows a beautiful reporter to New York and shakes the Big Apple to its core. In Crocodile Dundee II, Dundee and his girfriend, the reporter are targeted by a gang of ruthless drug dealers. To even the odds, Dundee leads the big-city hoods into the treacherous Australian outback. In Crocodile Dundee...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Crocodile Dundee: Paul Hogan's hilarious, endearing performance made "Crocodile" Dundee the biggest box-office comedy smash of 1986 as a free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands and drinks mere mortals under the table. But he's about to face the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York gangsters are pursuing Sue, so for...
13) Australia
Formats
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....