Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies Movies

About Aborigines and Australian politics. On 13 March 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of the Aurukun...

The story of an Aboriginal stockman, Sunny Bancroft, and his family at Collum Collum and their growing enthusiasm for "picnic races" on bush tracks...

A classic documentary about the annual muster on Coniston cattle station, north-west of Alice Springs, and its Aboriginal head stockman, Coniston...

A documentary record of the Gunabibi fertility ceremony among Aboriginal communities in northern Arnhem Land, filmed by anthropologist Roger Sandall...

An ethnographic documentary directed by Roger Sandall, recording the construction of a bark canoe by two Aboriginal men, Djurkuwidi and Wangamaru, on...

From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film...