Australian Biographies Collection
Beamafilm
Explore the extraordinary lives that shaped Australian history through this compelling collection of biographical films. From the bold exploits of Nancy Wake or Mad Dog Morgan, the artistic legacy of Tudawali, and the ill-fated expedition of Burke and Wills, these films bring to life the courage, struggles, and triumphs of remarkable individuals who left an indelible mark on the nation's story.
Nancy Wake tells the true story of Australasia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'.
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The film shows how David Gulpilil was always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds.
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In the late 1930s, Alma Brooks and Rupert Kathner began a movie-making spree.
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The career of High Court Justice Michael Kirby.
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Harry Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects. He won every architectural major prize in Australia, and was embraced internationally. This is his career.
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This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
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An intimate portrait of comic genius Spike Milligan.
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"Show Me The Magic" takes us on an enthralling journey into the life and work of legendary Australian cinematographer Don McAlpine.
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Stringybark re-enacts the true story of a party of mounted police in colonial Victoria tasked with the arrest and apprehension of the notorious Ned Kelly.
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I'm Wanita is the story of a renegade country music singer from Tamworth, Australia, hell-bent on realizing her childhood dreams of stardom.
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In colonial Australia, an Aboriginal woman takes a lost white child under her wing.
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A parody of the two 19th-century Australian explorers who embarked on an ill-fated expedition across the Australian continent.
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A tall girl with a tall story, 31 year old Jabe Babe measures six foot two inches (188cm), works as a dominatrix and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome. This 52 minute hybrid documentary, merging fiction...
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A bushranger and his accomplice terrorise the Australian countryside.
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In late 1830s colonial Australia, an unspeakable crime against First Nations people creates an upheaval between law and order.
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4-part biopic about classic Australian author A.B. Facey (1894-1982). Born into a large impoverished family, uneducated and illiterate, he'd fended for himself since he was 8 and was later sent to Gallipoli as a WWI recruit.
Ernie Dingo delivers an outstanding portrayal of Robert Tudawali, the first Aboriginal film star, whose lead role in Jedda is iconic in Australian cinema.
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For the love of her new husband, Jeannie abandons a high society city life to trek into the vast, wild heart of Australia & face the enduring hardships of outback life & the battles against sexist & racial prejudices.
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In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government.
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The story of Jørn Utzon charting the exhilarating and then tragic course of the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House. A gentle portrait of a man, a design icon, and his most celebrated work at Bennelong Point.
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The inspiring, tragic and intimate life story of David McComb, cult Australian singer/songwriter and driving force behind one of the greatest Australian bands, The Triffids.
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An infamous and daring true tale of mutiny at sea.
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A short film and awareness project exploring victim blaming and gendered violence in society, following three women out on a Friday night in St Kilda, who's lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence.
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Follow the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping...
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POLITICS - PROTEST - PROFANITY
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