July 4-11 is NAIDOC week in Australia, a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The 2010 theme is 'Unsung Heroes – Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way’. The gap refers to the one between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

To celebrate NAIDOC week the films and programs featured here are about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are little known in the wider community, but whose stories have contributed in their own ways to closing the gap.

Ningla A-Na (1972), follows the Black movement in south-east Australia in the 1970s, including the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House, in Canberra. It features activists such as Gary Foley, known within the movement, but who could be considered an 'unsung hero’ outside it.

Also included is a Message Stick episode, Message Stick – Arafura Pearl (2003) the story of a creative, political and passionate family actively involved in shaping their society and Cool Drink and Culture (2006) about three young women passionate about passing on their knowledge of bush tucker.

There is a profile of little known Indigenous country singer Vic Simms, whose album The Loner (1968) still sounds fresh today and the documentary Rosie (2003) about a member of the Stolen Generation who started to search for her parents because, she said, 'a part of me was still missing’.

The final episode from the landmark series – First Australians – Episode 7, We Are No Longer Shadows (2008) is also here, with a link to the other episodes.