Australian history - Marcom Projects

Australian history
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RAINBOW SERPENT
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Trade Routes
6 x 30
This program brings together living storytellers to
uncover historical Aboriginal trade routes across Australia long before
white settlement.
VHS - SBRBS1
Price $104.50
Changing Culture
This program looks at the lives of two Aborigines who leave their home
to experience success in new environments, and regularly return home,
although their sense of belonging has been altered.
VHS - SBRBS2
Price $104.50
Warriors
This program focuses on resistance against the white invaders.
Reminiscences of descendants are woven through the story, drawing on
the continuity of the Aboriginal warrior tradition. Also explored are early
aspects of Sydney life.
VHS - SBRBS3
Price $104.50
Sacred Sites
Aborigines believe that land and people are inseparable. To them, their
sacred sites represent the expression of total reverence for nature
and mankind. This episode examines the relationship of Aborigines to
various sacred sites.
VHS - SBRBS4
Price $104.50
Women
Aboriginal women are becoming the firm inspiration for Aboriginal
peoples. This episode focuses on Aboriginal women who have fought to
overcome the pressures of contemporary society, and created a new age
and regard for themselves and their people.
VHS - SBRBS5
Price $104.50
Survivors
This episode looks at Aboriginals of mixed racial descent, it examines
the question of Aboriginal identity, and discusses the stage at
which Aboriginals of mixed racial descent cease to call themselves
Aboriginals.
VHS - SBRBS6
Price $104.50
SAVE Full Series - Price $415
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Two Weeks Off Work
Janine Hayes was taken from her family when she was
young and fostered into a white family. This program
shows her visiting her Aboriginal family at an older
age, following her personal struggle to come to terms
with her mixed feelings and the mixed feelings from her
Aboriginal family.
SBS Televison Duration 53min
VHS - SBTW
Price $132
Gladiatrix
After her divorce, twenty-five-year-old mother of two
Sharon Carter decided to do something extraordinary
by joining a Roman re-enactment group and enter the
arena to fight as “Amazonia”, a 1st Century Celtic
warrior-woman from Britain. But Sharon’s desire to
fight in the arena is tempered when she is told she
must use a double-headed axe and fight against the male gladiators to
be truly authentic. This is a story of Sharon’s struggle to win the respect
of her peers and fight for the honour of the wooden sword of freedom.
Along the journey Sharon learns something about herself and being a
single mum in 21st Century Brisbane.
SBS Teleivion 2005 Duration 26min
DVD - 6SBGLA
Price $132
The Colony
Australia’s first living history series is a blend of
historical discovery, social jeopardy, adventure
challenge and experiential learning as pampered 21st
Century ‘pioneers’ attempt to prove they’re tough
enough to survive their historical ordeal. Against this
backdrop, the series explores the gripping story of the
first settlements’ brutal, often bloody conflict between races (Aboriginal,
Irish and English), classes (convicts, free settlers and military) and men
and women. A British and and Irish family are shipped to the far side
of the world to join an Australian family. They enter an isolated world,
cut off from civilsation in almost every respect. They have to cope with
the lack of creature comforts as well as the gruelling chores of daily
life. How did the three European families, their volunteer convicts and
Aboriginal people come together to face the challenges of early European
settlement on the frontier?
SBS Television 2005 Duration 6 x 50min on one DVD
DVD - 6SBCOL
Price $198
The Habits of New Norcia
The Benedictine Monastery of New Norcia, the only
monastic town in Australia, was until 1973 New Norcia
Mission, home to generations of Aboriginal children.
It was an orphanage without orphans, as none of the
children were there because they had no parents. The
children suffered terrible hardships; used as child
labourers, starvation forced them to eat the food set aside for the
chickens, and cruel punishments were part of their daily existence.
Several of the children, now adults aged from 34 to 84, return to the
mission to recount their version of their history on display. Today the
Monastery at New Norica presents itself as a popular tourist attraction.
SBS Australia 2003 Duration 53min
VHS - SBHNN
Price $132