Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

Film list

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Mabo: Life of an Island Man 1997 87‘

Directed by Trevor Graham .

On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction

Australia Public Figure Colonialism / Postcolonialism Life Story / Life History Political Activists Land Rights Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy

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Aeroplane Dance 1994 58‘

Directed by Trevor Graham .

December 1942: US bomber ‘Little Eva’ was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. It hit a storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in Australia’s far north. Aeroplane Dance

Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory