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Mike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

Jimmie Blacksmith, a young Aboriginal man raised by missionaries, is caught between the ways of his black forefathers and the white society to which he aspires. Exploitation and betrayal lead him to declare war on his white employers.

$14.99

In Dancing to His Song film critic Jane Freebury searches for the sources of Rolf de Heer's inspiration and finds the secret of his success in an ethic of hard work, flexibility and self-reliance that meets challenges with ingenuity and keeps a steady focus on his vision. 

$51.99
The Back of Beyond
Sylvia Lawson

The Back of Beyond celebrates the life and times of Australia’s best known outback mail man Tom Kruse MBE. 

$17.99
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Larissa Behrendt

In this honest and frank account, Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, academic and award-winning author Larissa Behrendt looks at Rabbit-Proof Fence, the film adapted from Doris Pilkington Garimara's book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.

$17.99
Wake in Fright
Tina Kaufman

Based on Kenneth Cook’s classic novel, this film about bored schoolteacher John Grant getting caught in an outback nightmare of booze, racism, misogyny and bloodlust was made in 1971 and lost until 2004.

$14.99
Jedda
Jane Mills

Set in the Northern Territory, Jedda tells the story of an Indigenous baby adopted by a white woman. She grows up with an expectation that she’ll marry a mixed-race stockman, only to be abducted by the bad, mad and ‘primitive’ Marbuk who lures her to her death.

$17.99
Alvin Purple
Catharine Lumby

One of the seminal films of the 1970s, Alvin Purple depicts Alvin’s struggles with his irresistibility to women—from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his short-lived career as a sex therapist. 

$16.99
The Piano
Gail Jones

In 1880 the widowed, and mute, Ada and her young daughter, Flora leave their native Scotland and travel to New Zealand’s remote South Island. With the piano left on the beach, Stewart’s neighbour Baines makes a deal with Stewart for the piano and lessons with Ada, which has dire repercussions for them all.

 

$17.99

Bastard Boys is the story of the fight that stopped the nation—the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. Political thriller, war film, buddy movie, love story and courtroom drama all rolled into one, this is the story of the people behind one of the most significant events in Australia's recent past.

$25.99
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