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2000s

The Hard Word 2002

The Twentyman brothers are released from Long Bay jail in Sydney to carry out an armed robbery. Dale (Guy Pearce) is the smart one, Mal (Damien Richardson) is dim but kind-hearted and Shane (Joel Edgerton) ...

John Safran’s Music Jamboree – Episode 2 2002

John Safran’s Music Jamboree is a ten-part comedy-documentary series about music and pop culture. In episode 2, John Safran stages a Footloose-inspired dance protest at his former high school and helps nine young men gain ...

Kath and Kim – Money 2002

Kath Day (Jane Turner) is worried about finding the money to pay for her dream wedding to Kel Knight (Glenn Robbins) and looks for ways to get rich quick. Meanwhile her daughter Kim Craig (Gina ...

Mother Tongue 2002

A young Korean girl’s father goes to Australia. The girl and her mother send him audio tapes regularly before they join him. In their new home country, the girl is brought up to speak only ...

Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour 2002

Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical crew as they set up and perform ...

Out There – Two Down Under 2002

In small-town Wollemi, teenager Miller (Richard Wilson) observes two overseas newcomers arriving at the vet clinic next door. Reilly (Douglas Smith) is a reluctant refugee from his wealthy family’s troubles in America, while UK-born Aggie ...

Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002

In Western Australia in 1931, three mixed-race Aboriginal children are forcibly abducted from their mothers at Jigalong, in the eastern Pilbara. Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi), 14, her sister Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), eight, and their cousin ...

Shit Skin 2002

A short drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she may reconnect with her surviving family.

Snake Dreaming 2002

A short drama written and performed by Indigenous children about the Stolen Generations.

The Tracker 2002

In rough bush country in 1922, an Aboriginal tracker (David Gulpilil) leads three white men in the hunt for a black fugitive. The senior policeman in charge (Gary Sweet) murders 'bush blacks’ on sight; a ...

Trespass 2002

A documentary about Yvonne Margarula and the Mirarr people’s fight against the mining companies. Trespass is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ ...

Walking on Water 2002

Young gay man Gavin (David Bonney) is dying from an AIDS-related illness in his beachside Sydney house, cared for by his two best friends and housemates, Charlie (Vince Colosimo) and Anna (Maria Theodorakis). As his ...

White Collar Blue – Series 1 Episode 21 2002

The Kingsway major crime squad arrive to investigate a shooting at a wedding. The groom is in a coma – but when interviewed, none of the guests seem to have seen anything. Is there an ...

Alexandra’s Project 2003

After Steve (Gary Sweet) has enjoyed birthday greetings and gifts from his two children, Sam (Jack Christie) and Emma (Samantha Knigge), he cheerfully leaves for work. Clearly anxious, his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday) tells the ...

Beyond Sorry 2003

When she was eight years old, Zita Wallace was removed from her families by the authorities. This is a documentary about the Stolen Generations, and the journey of one woman to reconnect with the Eastern ...

A Cold Summer 2003

A Cold Summer depicts the dysfunctional entanglement of three damaged young individuals in Sydney, two of them old female school friends, the third a male alcoholic living in his car. Bobby (Teo Gebert), who has ...

Compass – Changi Days, POW Poets 2003

When 22,000 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese on the Malay Peninsula early in 1942, they disappeared into the vast prison camp called Changi on Singapore Island. The soldiers had to find ways ...

The Dream and the Dreaming 2003

A documentary about the arrival of the Lutheran missionaries in 1877 in central Australia.

The Finished People 2003

The Finished People cuts between three stories of disadvantaged young people struggling to survive on the streets of Cabramatta, a suburb in south-west Sydney known for its high crime rate and also for its high ...

Gettin’ Square 2003

After eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) gets paroled because of the death of his mother. He returns to the Gold Coast determined to stay out of ...

A Girl, a Horse, a Dream 2003

A Girl, a Horse, a Dream follows the top Australian female jockey Bernadette Cooper for a year as she travels around the country competing at country, provincial and metropolitan racetracks. The film interrogates the belief ...

Harvie Krumpet 2003

Harvek Milosz Krumpetzki (voiced by Julie Forsyth) is born with Tourette syndrome in a tiny snowbound hut, deep in the Polish countryside. Regarded as a miracle by his illiterate, peasant parents, Lilliana (voiced by Julie ...

The Healing of Bali 2003

Produced one year after the terrorist bombing of a nightclub in Bali, the film examines the impact on the Balinese and their recollection of the event. The film interviews victims, their families and those who ...

Japanese Story 2003

Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious young Perth geologist, flies north to Port Hedland to babysit the son of a Japanese industrialist, on a private visit. Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) marvels at the size of ...

Message Stick – Arafura Pearl 2003

Kathleen Mills (nee McGuiness) is a respected Indigenous Elder of Darwin, mother of eight, and mother to the singing group The Mills Sisters.

Message Stick – Child Artists of Carrolup 2003

During the 1950s children from Carrolup mission in Western Australia, south of Perth, became artists under the instruction of Mr White, but after leaving the mission many of them never painted again.

Message Stick – Macumba: Outside Looking In 2003

Macumba: Outside Looking In pays homage to the highly respected Aboriginal media legend John Macumba and to his legacy in Aboriginal radio broadcasting. It documents events in Macumba’s life that led to his career in ...

Message Stick – Wathaurong Glass 2003

The Wathaurong community of Geelong began a glass business in order to provide employment for their people.

Molly and Mobarak 2003

Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to life in the regional NSW town of ...

Ned Kelly 2003

Edward (‘Ned’) Kelly (Heath Ledger) defends himself in a fight against police in the main street of Greta, after one officer wrongfully accuses him of stealing a horse. Kelly gets three years in prison. Returning ...

Not In Front of the Kids 2003

A short documentary made by bRitt Arthur which explores sexuality, relationships, ageing and the social and physical needs of people in their later years of life. It contains a series of vignettes in which men ...

Queen of Hearts 2003

A short feature film about the relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother, following the journey of the granddaughter and how she deals with her grandmother’s impending death from cancer.

Time Bomb 2003

A documentary about Frank Djara and his work as a men’s health consultant in Areyonga. Frank also talks about how diabetes has affected his life.

5 Seasons 2004

A documentary narrated by Tom E Lewis about a region that western society says has two seasons, the wet and the dry. The Numurindi people of south-east Arnhemland in the Northern Territory’s Gulf of Carpentaria ...

Betelnut Bisnis 2004

This documentary follows several indigenous people of New Guinea as they attempt to earn cash by selling the psychoactive drug betelnut. The money is needed to pay for food, school fees and medicine. Betelnut is ...

Birthday Boy 2004

One day in the life of Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), a little boy playing at being a soldier among the devastation of the Korean War, 1951. His father is away, a real soldier at ...

Compass – Fly on the Wall Messiah 2004

Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel’s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. It’s a Christmas tradition. They have nine rehearsals only and getting ready for the big night is a nail-biting ...

Deadly Yarns – Don’t Say Sorry 2004

Christine Jacobs, a Western Australian Aboriginal woman, provides a short account of the pain she suffered as a child of the stolen generations when she was removed from her family. Jacobs tells how as an ...

Deadly Yarns – Ganggu Mama 2004

A gang of young Aboriginal boys living in the city and getting up to mischief turn their backs on their culture. Ganggu Mama (David Ngoombujarra), or Uncle Daddy, suggests the boys join him busking at ...

Deadly Yarns – Sugar Bag 2004

When Laurel grew too big to hide from the troopers, her mother placed her in a mission, close to where the family lived, in order to maintain ongoing contact with her daughter. Now 70 years ...

The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 2 2004

Whether it’s diving for trepang or sea cucumber in the northernmost tip of Australia, or putting together a feast from local produce at the southernmost point in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania, the program ranges ...

The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 5 2004

Maeve O’Mara travels to north-east Tasmania to discover the secrets behind creating a terrific cheddar. We then meet the chef of Sydney’s great restaurant, Claude’s, while Joanna Savill helps with the preparations for a three ...

Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack 2004

Fourteen-year-old Brett Miller (Zachary Garred) has discovered an amazing portal In the old Perth beach house where he lives, which takes him to Ireland. When Irish girl Hannah O’Flaherty (Lynn Styles) finds out about it, ...

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant 2004

When a starving young woman, Mary Broad (Romola Garai), is caught stealing a bonnet and some bread, she is sentenced to transportation with the First Fleet to Botany Bay. On her voyage, she meets two ...

I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan 2004

This is a comprehensive and enlightening documentary about comedian, writer and performer Spike Milligan, as seen through the eyes of his immediate family, his close friends and his show business colleagues. Along with testimony from ...

John Safran vs God – Episode 2 2004

In this episode of his comedy-documentary series about religion, John Safran road tests Zen Buddhism, questions left-wing sincerity about Aboriginal land rights and gets to know the Freemasons.

Karli Jalangu – Boomerang Today 2004

An observational-style documentary about the making of a number seven boomerang by four senior traditional men from Central Australia. Karli Jalangu – Boomerang Today is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian ...

Land Mines – A Love Story 2004

Shah, a former Mujahideen soldier in Afghanistan, courts a Tajik girl, Habiba, and marries her. The couple have both been the victims of landmines. The wars of the latter half of the 20th century have ...

Letters to Ali 2004

A documentary feature by Clara Law that follows an Australian family on their journey of friendship with fifteen-year-old ‘Ali’, an Afghan asylum seeker detained at the Port Hedland detention centre. The film also tells the ...

The Life and Times of Malcolm Fraser 2004

In this documentary Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, looks back on his life and discusses the principles that drive him. Elected after the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government in ...

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