Indigenous Australians Movies

  • 2012
    The Sapphires

    The Sapphires

    The Sapphires

    6.82012HD

    It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as...

    The Sapphires
  • 1978
    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    6.81978HD

    The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and...

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
  • 2015
    Tanna

    Tanna

    Tanna

    6.72015HD

    In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal...

    Tanna
  • 2016
    Servant or Slave

    Servant or Slave

    Servant or Slave

    7.52016HD

    During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic...

    Servant or Slave
  • 2020
    The Flood

    The Flood

    The Flood

    4.42020HD

    When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms...

    The Flood
  • 1987
    Ground Zero

    Ground Zero

    Ground Zero

    6.31987HD

    A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and...

    Ground Zero
  • 2019
    In My Blood It Runs

    In My Blood It Runs

    In My Blood It Runs

    82019HD

    The story of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy living in Alice Springs, Australia, who is struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa...

    In My Blood It Runs
  • 2015
    Black Chook

    Black Chook

    Black Chook

    02015HD

    They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had...

    Black Chook
  • 2012
    Mabo

    Mabo

    Mabo

    7.62012HD

    The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge...

    Mabo
  • 1970
    First Warrior

    First Warrior

    First Warrior

    01970HD

    Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led...

    First Warrior
  • 2023
    Sweet As

    Sweet As

    Sweet As

    62023HD

    With problems on the home front, 15-year-old Murra is on the verge of lashing out. That is, until her policeman uncle thwarts her self-destructive...

    Sweet As
  • 1984
    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

    Where the Green Ants Dream

    6.8981984HD

    The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are...

    Where the Green Ants Dream
  • 2019
    Killer Native

    Killer Native

    Killer Native

    62019HD

    A bitingly wicked take on first contact between British settlers and Aboriginal people – and zombies.

    Killer Native
  • 2020
    The Moogai

    The Moogai

    The Moogai

    7.6672020HD

    Moogai is Bundjalung for ‘ghost’, and it is precisely a moogai that intrudes on the quiet home life of Sarah, Fergus and their newborn...

    The Moogai
  • 2002
    Mimi

    Mimi

    Mimi

    5.52002HD

    A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

    Mimi
  • 2019
    Between Two Lines

    Between Two Lines

    Between Two Lines

    02019HD

    When two First World War enemy soldiers become stranded in no man’s land, an unlikely bond is formed. Will they still be able to pull the...

    Between Two Lines
  • 2006
    Crocodile Dreaming

    Crocodile Dreaming

    Crocodile Dreaming

    02006HD

    Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis....

    Crocodile Dreaming
  • 1989
    88.9 Radio Redfern

    88.9 Radio Redfern

    88.9 Radio Redfern

    11989HD

    An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of...

    88.9 Radio Redfern
  • 2018
    Gurrumul

    Gurrumul

    Gurrumul

    72018HD

    Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced...

    Gurrumul
  • 2016
    Ella

    Ella

    Ella

    02016HD

    Ella Havelka made history in 2013 by becoming the first Indigenous dancer at the 50-year-old Australian Ballet. In this engaging, MIFF Premiere...

    Ella