Indigenous film timeline

Below is a timeline for the Indigenous movies and movies by Indigenous directors which I have listed on this website. The inspiration to this movie timeline came from user feedback to this site.

1955

Jedda
1960

Shadow Of The Boomerang
1967

Journey out of Darkness
1967-1985

Walkabout With Malcolm Douglas
1971

Walkabout
1972

Ningla A-Na (Hungry For Our Land)
1975

Protected: The Truth About Palm Island
Sister, If You Only Knew
1976

Storm Boy
1977

Backroads
The Last Wave
1978

My Survival As An Aboriginal
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1980

Manganinnie
1981

Two Laws
Wrong Side of the Road
1983

Lousy Little Sixpence
1984

Where The Green Ants Dream (Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen)
1986

Babakiueria (“Barbecue Area”)
1987

How The West Was Lost
The Fringe Dwellers
Tudawali
1987 - current

Nganampa Anwernekenhe
1988

Dreaming Of Lords
1989

Always Was Always Will Be
1990

Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
1991

Bran Nue Dae (musical)
1992

Deadly
Jindalee Lady
1993

Bedevil (beDevil)
Benny and the Dreamers
Blackfellas (Day of the Dog)
Freedom Ride
My Live As I Live It
The Naked Country
1994

Beyond The Dreamtime
Milli Milli
1995

Fly Peewee Fly
The Life of Harry Dare
1996

Coolbaroo Club
No Way to Forget
Pay Back
1997

A Dying Shame
After Mabo
Dead Heart
Journey
Warm Strangers
1998

Marluku Wirlinyi - Kangaroo Hunters
My Bed Your Bed
Radiance
Tears
1998, 2001

Bush Mechanics
1999

Wind
2000

Buried Country
Stolen Generations
The Opportunists
The Third Note
2001

Mirror Images
One Night The Moon
Serenades
Yolngu Boy
2002

Australian Rules
Beneath Clouds
Black And White
Black Chicks Talking
Bush Bikes
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
JABIRU 0886: Trespass
Mimi
Rabbit Proof Fence/Long Walk Home
The Tracker
2003

Beyond Sorry
Burned Bridge (Heartland)
Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls
The Forgotten
2004

Checkerboard Love
Feel My Absence
Kalkadoon Man
Over d-fence
Plains Empty
The Djarn Djarns
Too Little Justice
2005

Case 442
Green Bush
Sa Black Thing (Sa Blak Thing)
Unstuck
Us Mob
Yellow Fella
2006

Aunty Connie
Call me Mum
Ceremony – The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land
Island Fettlers
Jindabyne
Kanyini
La Perouse Panthers
My Brother Vinnie
Shifting Shelter 3
Stone Country
Sunset To Sunrise
Ten Canoes
Why me? - Stories from the Stolen Generations
2007

A Sister’s Love
Aboriginal Rules
Back Seat (Backseat)
Between The Lines: The Initiation Of Adam Hill
Bit of Black Business
Bloodlines
Bollywood Dreaming
Bungalung
Courting with Justice
Crocodile Dreaming
Custard
Days Like These
Done Dirt Cheap
Hush
Jackie Jackie
Jarlmadangah
Kwatye
Liyarn Ngarn
Mad Morro
Nana
Nigger Lovers
Sacred Ground
September
Sharpeye
Spirit Stones
Storytime
The Circuit
The Turtle
Think About It
Too Late
Two Big Boys
Vote Yes for Aborigines
Wanja: Warrior Dog
When Colin met Joyce
Who Paintin’ Dis Wandjina?
2008

A Northern Town
Australia
Bastardy
Fire Talker
First Australians
Fitzroy Stars: More Than a Game
In My Father’s Country
Lionel
Mixed Bag
One River All Rivers
One Tree, One Man
River of No Return
The Intervention: Katherine, NT
Voices From The Cape
Yolngu Guya Djamamirr
2009

Aunty Maggie & The Womba Wakgun
Barngngrnn Marrangu Story
Blowback
Bourke Boy
Contact
Daniel’s 21st
Dreamland
Emily In Japan
From The Ashes
In a League Of Their Own
Jacob
Karlu Karlu - Devil’s Marbles
Lani’s Story
Making Samson & Delilah
My Home The Block
My Uncle Bluey
Nia’s Melancholy
Nundhirribala’s Dream
Ralph
Samson & Delilah
Stone Bros.
The Farm
The Party Shoes
Yajilarra
2010

Among Us
Art + Soul
Big Fella
Boxing For Palm Island
Bran Nue Dae (Brand new day)
Everything Looks Beautiful
Eye
Here I Am
Intervention—2 Years On
Keeper
Nin’s Brother
Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji
Our Generation
Tales From The Daly: ‘Nauiyu Nambiyu’
Three Boys Dreaming
2011

Freedom Rides - 40 Years On
Jandamarra’s War
Mad Bastards
Murundak
Running to America
The Tall Man
Toomelah
2012

Mabo
Redfern Now
Satellite Boy
The Sapphires