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.

1. 1955

    

   

   Jedda

2. 1960

    

   Shadow Of The Boomerang

3. 1967

    

   Journey out of Darkness

4. 1971

    

   Walkabout

5. 

   1975

    

   Sister, if You Only Knew

6. 1976

    

   Storm Boy

7. 1977

    

   Backroads
   The Last Wave

   

8. 1978

    

   My Survival As An Aboriginal
   The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

9. 1980

    

   Manganinnie

10. 1981

     

    

    Wrong Side of the Road

11. 1983

     

    Lousy Little Sixpence

12. 1984

     

    Where the Green Ants Dream

13. 1987

     

    

    Babakiueria
    How The West Was Lost
    The Fringe Dwellers
    Tudawali
    

14. 1988

     

    Dreaming Of Lords

15. 1989

     

    Always Was Always Will Be

16. 1990

     

    Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

17. 1991

     

    Bran Nue Dae (musical)

18. 1992

     

    

    Deadly
    Jindalee Lady

19. 1993

     

    Bedevil
    Blackfellas
    Freedom Ride
    My Life As I Live It
    The Naked Country

20. 1994

     

    

    Beyond The Dreamtime

21. 1995

     

    Fly, Peewee, Fly
    The Life of Harry Dare

22. 1996

     

    

    Coolbaroo Club
    No Way to Forget Pay Back

23. 1997

     

    A Dying Shame
    Dead Heart
    Journey
    Warm Strangers

24. 1998

     

    

    Marluku Wirlinyi - Kangaroo Hunters
    My Bed Your Bed
    Radiance
    Tears

25. 1999

     

    Wind

26. 2000

     

    The Opportunists

27. 2001

     

    

    Buried Country
    Bush Mechanics
    Mirror Images
    One Night the Moon
    Serenades
    The Third Note
    Yolngu Boy

28. 2002

     

    

    Australian Rules
    Beneath Clouds
    Black And White
    Black Chicks Talking
    Bush Bikes
    Gulpilil: One Red Blood
    Mimi
    Rabbit Proof Fence
    The Tracker
    Trespass

29. 2003

     

    Beyond Sorry
    Burned Bridge/Heartland
    Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls
    The Forgotten

30. 2004

     

    

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

31. 2005

     

    Case 442
    Green Bush
    Sa Black Thing
    Us Mob
    Yellow Fella

32. 2006

     

    

    Aunty Connie
    Call me Mum
    Island Fettlers
    Jindabyne
    Kanyini
    La Perouse Panthers
    My Brother Vinnie
    Shifting Shelter 3
    Ten Canoes
    Why me?

33. 2007

     

    

    A Sister's Love
    Aboriginal Rules
    Back Seat
    Between The Lines: The Initiation Of Adam Hill
    Bloodlines
    Bollywood Dreaming
    Courting With Justice
    Crocodile Dreaming
    Custard
    Days Like These
    Done Dirt Cheap
    Hush
    Jackie Jackie
    Kwatye
    Liyarn Ngarn
    Mad Morro
    Nana
    Sacred Ground
    September
    Sharpeye
    Spirit Stones
    Storytime
    The Circuit
    The Turtle
    Too Late
    Two Big Boys
    Wanja: Warrior Dog
    When Colin Met Joyce
    

34. 2008

     

    

    A Northern Town
    Australia
    Bastardy
    Fire Talker
    First Australians
    In a League Of Their Own
    In My Father's Country
    Mixed Bag
    One River All Rivers
    One Tree, One Man
    River of No Return
    The Intervention
    Voices From The Cape
    Who Paintin' Dis Wandjina?
    Yolngu Guya Djamamirr
    

35. 2009

     

    

    Aunty Maggie & The Womba Wakgun
    Barngngrnn Marrangu Story
    Blowback
    Bourke Boy
    Contact
    Daniel's 21st
    From The Ashes
    Jacob
    Lani's Story
    Making Samson & Delilah
    My Home The Block
    Nia's Melancholy
    Nundhirribala's Dream
    Ralph
    Samson & Delilah
    Stone Bros.
    The Farm
    The Party Shoes
    Yajilarra
    

36. 2010

     

    Big Fella
    Boxing For Palm Island
    Bran Nue Dae
    Eye
    Nin's Brother
    Our Generation
    Three Boys Dreaming
    

37. 2012

     

    Satellite Boy