I am here in 2019 because this story still stays with me. I watched it years ago when I was in elementary school on the local Canadian tv staion TVO. It's a beautiful story about a mother and the strength of her children's bond and faith. Pushing against society and the extreme hardships throughout.
I think this is one of Australia's cruelest parts of history. It reminded me of my 6th grade teacher who was Aboriginal and part of the stolen generation. She had to teach us that Australia was 'Terra nullius' when British settlers first arrived - that must've been difficult for her until the history books changed.
Had someone tell me the stolen generation was 'justified' and 'not as bad as what they make it out to be'. My grandparent's still remember hiding under their beds when these chaps came around. Thanks for posting the trailer!
It's a disgusting denialist attitude from Aussies, when there is no greater injustice than removing children from their parents and culture. Another show that shook me to the core was "Little Bird" about the "Scoop" period in Canada in the 1960's. Canada's residential schools were still active in the 80's. Canada and Australia have a parallel Colonial history.
@@AClockworkTammy666 I still can’t believe he’s gone, I’m not Aboriginal or even Australian and I haven’t seen all his films but I was a big fan of his and I cried when he died.
I read this was based on a true story and when I saw the end of this movie, I sobbed like a baby. I can't believe this horrible shit was done to the Aboriginal people. The fact that discrimination is still ongoing makes me so sick to my stomach.
This movie is so powerful. It is beautiful but heart breaking. I can't explain why I love it so much. It is such a terrible history- but something about it resonates inside of me, maybe my aboriginal heritage. It will always be one of my top favs.
+AmyMc_clothesandmakeup well... it should be pretty common knowledge that Australia was colonised by the Europeans... but that aside... with your "normal obsessions", are you trying to insinuate that those of us who take the time to discuss these sorts of issues are strange? I would call it taking an interest in the greater society, and expanding your mind with new takes on the world... you just kinda back handed yourself...
This movie makes me appreciate the year I was born in. Because I was the first born half cast in my families. To my grandmother's death bed, she hated and cursed the white men. But, hate gets us nowhere. I remember first watching this movie. I was always reminded how lucky I was. Because I was born with rights. And though, my family suffered. Australia has come along way. That's all we can hope for, that we keep moving forward.
I understand your grandmother hated white men but that's doing the same thing they were doing Blaming someone just solely because of their race/colour. THats the thing about this, using the holocaust as an example, some Germans hated Jewish people are used propaganda to decide others that they were right, and then they did horrible things to Jews. The same is in this situation, it wasn't everyone, and back then (even now) many hate Germans or white people in general despite 1. it wasn't all of them and 2. no one alive today has done this stuff and it's not fair to place the blame. Sorry for this weird rant about hypocritical things
We watched this in school. Pretty much the same thing happened here in Canada with indigenous people, they were called residential schools. Absolutely disgusting to see the chaos and destruction that Europeans have left worldwide
And then the sixties scoop after the residential schools, where tons and tons of indigenous kids were unnecessarily removed from their families by child protective services and adopted out to white families in Canada and the USA
Katie Gordon Yes, all by white people. And nothing is being done because of white supremacy. They don't teach this worldwide, they change words around like trade worker instead of slaves, the melanated people are treated poorly in their own country, the list goes on.
are you insane? EVERY single race of people has done things similar or comparable to this smh, as if youre gonna sit there being racist asf and saying "all white people are evil". Disgusting, did you miss the morale of this movies story, have you even seen the movie?
Comeonmate7 You cannot even provide a good example. I never even said "all white people are evil" you suffer from psychosis, distorting reality. The indigenous people never lived in teepee's, mud hut, straw huts, etc, they lived in vast cities where pyramids were built.
"yes all by white people". What are you talking about? Plenty of cultures did this. The African slave traders who sold slaves to the Europeans. How about the current persecution of women and most non islamics in Africa and the middle east?
Aboriginal people are one of the most beautifulist skinned colour people on earth. I wish that the white settlement have never done those HORRIFIC things to the kind aboriginal people during the past. If time could come back I would change the history of those aborigines. I would not allow the stolen generation and the white settlement to be proud of discovering a land that have already been discovered by the clever aboriginal people.Just because of aboriginal people's skin colour are darker than others our hearts are all the same. We aren't different in any other ways on the inside.
great movie, sadly aussies didn't learned anything from past. indigenous culture and languages should have been preserved and promoted. australia did had a beautiful culture sadly which was never promoted because of racism.
+Krishna Narayanan that's actually quite interesting, when the European settlers/invaders whatever you want to call them, came to New Zealand they didn't try to take over because they recognised the Maori strength and structure of society, however when they came to Australia, they deemed the people already there in residence 'less than'/'underdeveloped', whatever it was that they thought. What you're saying here is interesting because New Zealand is quite prideful and excepting of the Maori culture, whereas Australia, though not discriminatory, is quite dismissive of it on a social basis. Similar to stance taken by Americans towards their Native people's culture (i think, i'm not an American so i'm really just going off long distance observations). That being said there is still a lot of Aboriginal acknowledgement present in Australian society.
To this day one of the most traumatising movies I have ever watched. I regularly watch (at least parts of) it with my students as part of history lessons on the topic of Imperialism/Racism, but even as an adult and a historian, I find it almost unbearable. What it felt like for the families I will never be able to fully grasp.
What a powerful story and an echo of what happened, in recent history, to the Native American, African Slave... The tenacity and strong will and mind of Molly and Gracie blow me away and their actions help to strengthen me when I think I have had enough and want to give up...there is light at the end of the tunnel and light on the way guiding us to our souls' truth...guiding us HOME! Strength, Love, and Healing to The Stolen Generation!
"If they would only understand what we are trying to do for them". It is amazing and horrifying how completely out of touch with basic kindness or even decency that human beings have been throughout history.
I chose to watch this when it came out as an adult, so I understood it well as I had read reviews first. It went on all over the world as an attempt to Westernise even the most remote tribes and 'reach' them first by missionaries. But all that started in the Middle East, Greece and Egypt 2000 years ago with the Christianisation of the pagans and Jews. Before Christianity began in Palestine the Jews mostly kept themselves to themselves and didn't force Judaism on Gentiles. Then in the first century the early monks were destroying pagan temples, and statues and the Library of Aleexandria. Christianity. Then they spread all over Europe and people were forced to convert to it there. Then from Europe spread all over the world with colonisation starting five centuries ago with explorers and botanists first. Then missionaries and then invading armies. There is now an attempt in Europe to rediscover the pagan past. The Renaissance starting in Italy was about the attempt to revert back to Classical philosophies, discoveries and way of life from Italy and Greece. Around the same time I watched Whale Rider about a Maori girl who was the granddaughter of a tribal chief and raised by him as her father was living in Germany.
i remember my sister was watching this movie when she was in year 7, nd gor some reason it stuck eith me? just bits and fragments of this movie but it eas so powerful that i still remember jt
i had to watch this a week ago in social studies, lets just say i cried a lot because its a sad movie, and then i get bullied for caring about molly and her sisters, my class are so stupid and mean ;(
I agree, but "civilized" equals "unfair sick disgusting treatment." That's the way it is. Anybody who doesn't submit to "civilized" are "freaks" or "abomination," and they need to be "fixed." It's only a matter of time until the world "fixes you" (like they fixed me). When eventually, you are too afraid to even call it out as it is. Welcome to Earth.
I didn't know that in Australia racism was practiced disguised as service and slavery, just as it happened in the United States and South Africa, labor exploitation to deadly extremes, negative things in history.
yes....they kidnapped or forced native americans to let them attend their catholic church schools in order to indocrinate the white culture in them so that the kids would assimilate and not go against their white society. There is a move about it.
Freya Mulhall yes. I'm not Indigenous Australian or Native American, but this whole "stolen children, forced removal, and assimilation" history still upsets me. My heart breaks every time I watch the abduction scene.
Makiba U and during the Iron Age, sometimes the Romans would do this same forced removal and assimilation to the children in some Germanic tribes. Arminius, the man who defeated the Romans during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, was a Cherusci boy who was kidnapped from his village by the Romans and grew up with them.
Yes, and happened to all native people of all America, that is why native people in Peru and Mexico are so catholic, they achieved what they wanted, that is called The Missions. Very sad. There is a movie about it, I recommend it to you, The Mission is the name.
I never heard of this movie until someone mentioned it today in the comments on a Facebook post about the Australian police arresting a pregnant woman in her home (and in her pajamas) for a social media post she made. I will try to see this film at some point.
I remember i watched when i was 16 or 15 years old with my mom we cried when we watch it , i remember it was shown on one tv channel and back then we didn’t know the name of the movie until now . It’s sad story but happy ending, should all original Australians don’t forget their history
I watched this movie in class today and it was amazing. Sadly the author of the book his movie is based on passed away a couple of days ago. I believe Molly or Daisy is her mother. Very intriguing movie.
You can't honestly believe that? 🤣 lmfao. You guys treat yourselves like trash, wake up. Have you even lived on a mission? Or you complaining from a comfy city paid for by centrelink. LOL
I like this movie. ANY account of people escaping ''society'' and running away into freedom is a good story. And this one is full of courage, intrepidity and intelligence. These girls are great!🥰 *Just like in the futuristic movie THX 1138, in which a man escapes a hellish ''utopian underground world," the cost to the state for bringing him back outweighs the benefits of letting him go. He is only free when he rids himself of all the state's ''protections'' and goes up to the surface of the planet to take his chances with the elements, the possible radiation, starvation and the unknown.
As a black man i will never repeat the same hate because of this movie.We one its just taking to long for some to get it as a whole.. Not all whites hate us.Its just sad that the good ones are born in it..slr.
I remember when I was a kid in the first time I saw this movie and the part that I remember was when the guy comes and he’s like takes the children away I’m never sitting in my classroom just fucking horrified as little kid
I watched this with my mom when I was 12 and then I heard that my brother was watching this movie in his class. The fact that this was based on a real event makes it even more depressing.
i'm glad there's no more of this now. Especially since some people out who don't need to learn right from wrong, and the aboriginals are NOT all the same, cause it's not the skin or the culture that makes them who they are, it's their choices. some go on to commit crimes in this country while others take a better road
@Nia Studying something is not blaming the current generation, it is coming to understand what has happened and how to avoid it ever happening again. We have people here in America that want to pretend that slavery or Jim Crow never happened, and if they had their way we would never be able to talk about it either. but, it did happen and the effects are still reverberating through our society. People of color are still struggling against disadvantages that started back in the days of slavery and still persist to this day. No, we may not owe them an apology for what our ancestors did to their ancestors, but we do owe it to them to understand how past injustices have effected current generations and not use our white privilege to gain even more of an advantage over them.
I’m so lucky that my brother didn’t end up like them omg! My 6 year old brother is aboriginal and I’m just an Aussie an white Aussie If my brother end up like them I would ran away and find him!!
Yes guys, the treatment of the Aboriginal people was horrific and appalling, but please would all of you non-Australians look up the Stolen Generation before making big sweeping statements. This is a topic we (Australian high school students) have drilled into us right from the word go and we are quite well versed on the subject. We study it in English (literature), History, Legal Studies, etc. Did you know in Australian school nation-wide, we all have copies of Kevin Rudd's sorry speech to the Stolen Generation? Any of you know about the Mabo case? How many of you know about the sorry speech? The granddaughter of Eddie Mabo appeared on television a couple of years ago in a talent show and there were people (and yes, these people were in fact white) bowing with respect, yes it was an over dramatised thing, but in a respectful way, not disrespectful in the slightest. Please for the love of god would you stop foul mouthing the white people of the present day and realise that this oppression is no longer an acceptable part of Australian society, and if someone where to discriminate against a native person, they would be held strongly accountable for it by our legal system. I have never heard of an Aboriginal person (in the last couple of decades) being disadvantaged by society, only of them being given benefits based on their situation. Seriously look at Government policies. Please just lay off
+Katie Gordon The thing is, yes its a better situation today. The aboriginal population lived in peace for over 20.000 to 30.000 years, until about 230 years ago when new settlers invaded Australia and took their land and freedom. The Europeans murdered the aboriginals, kidnapped their children and took their home and culture.
+Aurora Nilsson yes it happened, and yes it was horrible. But we can't take back past atrocities. What's done is done, and if people continue to live in the past we'll never move forward. Events have repeated themselves so many times over the course of history. Countries get invaded. People die. We are lucky to live in an age where that is no longer considered an acceptable course of action. The Europeans invading the Aboriginals is one more case of one society overtaking another. I'm by no means endorsing their actions, but I am tired of being told that I need to be sorry for it. I personally, have done nothing at all to harm the Aboriginal people in person or by name, and I do not see why I should have to stand down and accept "all white people are horrible" and the such, because of something people I'm not even related to did. Even if I were distantly related to them I, or those around me who also do not mistreat the Aboriginal population, should not have to pay for the actions of people from a different time. They who have not even existed at same time as we have. The world was a different place back then. Shame the actions of those did the wrong, not those who are just trying to live in peace.
+Eric Mifsud calm the tone mate, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but I have yet to see a single argument telling me why I should allow myself to be ridiculed for something I did not do. Not only did I not do it, I had no power over it at all. Not because I am a bystander, but because I wasn't even alive at the time. But I should think that, that would be obvious. It's disgusting, horrifying, and appalling that these things occurred. Do they still? Are young Australian Indigenous girls and boys stolen from their communities for reasons based purely on their ethnicity? And, this white crowd bowing to an indigenous girl (you missed the part about her being Mabo's granddaughter, kind of an important aspect, not just for her but the Mabo case is another example of society's code changing and growing - important milestones being achieved, I mean) is important. You're absolutely right, it does not fix "200 years of social *Darwinism and ethnocentrism" (not that those are particularly stable points...), but doesn't it show how far society has come? The respect held for what her name and her people represent? And finally, "European man"... so does that mean you're not Australian? I'm not saying that if you aren't Australian you can't have an opinion, or anything like that, but if you aren't then you probably don't have the same level of exposure that we do to Aboriginal culture. Oh yeah, also, please refrain from the profanities. They do absolutely nothing to further your point. I'd love to have a proper discussion if you're up for it, because I want to hear the opinions of someone who disagrees with me, but if you can't be civilised then please take it elsewhere.
Because I have a horrendous habit of waffling on for extended periods of time. That and I also have the tendency to procrastinate (currently sitting the HSC).
Tragic - it's difficult to look at the aboriginals who are still badly treated in Australia. I have been there 6 times - great country but this is their disgrace..
A great movie so far that im watching in English!!!!! Its so sad.... Can anyone explain what happened to Olive in the beginning of the movie. it kinda confusing to my friends and I!?!?!
She left the camp to go see her boyfriend and the tracker caught her and brought her back. Afterwards, she was put into the punishment shed where she was beaten and the nun cut her hair off.
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A big part of Australian history that should not be forgotten.
That's true, it's very interesting
I am here in 2019 because this story still stays with me. I watched it years ago when I was in elementary school on the local Canadian tv staion TVO. It's a beautiful story about a mother and the strength of her children's bond and faith. Pushing against society and the extreme hardships throughout.
I think this is one of Australia's cruelest parts of history. It reminded me of my 6th grade teacher who was Aboriginal and part of the stolen generation. She had to teach us that Australia was 'Terra nullius' when British settlers first arrived - that must've been difficult for her until the history books changed.
lmao rawr xd
I’m aboriginal
You've taught me something that I didn't know thank you sir.
I’m aboriginal what they did was horrible it still makes me feel a sense of pain for my ancestors and my great pop
DuKeBanksy are you really aboriginal?
I’m not hating,
but ik ur lying
if it is u in ur profile.
Is it you??
I’m not accusing. I agree with you =)
they made us watch this when I was in grade 4, it was so much to take in at that age but I'm so glad I watched it
Tia Reynolds wow! I’m watching this movie at school in grade 6
Watched this when young aswell 💖💖💖
i’m grade 8
haha too bad we watched it in 9th grade
Me too, but I couldn't handle it, I was shaking and the teacher wouldn't let me leave. It was traumatizing
Had someone tell me the stolen generation was 'justified' and 'not as bad as what they make it out to be'. My grandparent's still remember hiding under their beds when these chaps came around. Thanks for posting the trailer!
They gaslight ALL black people that way. Just ask African Americans.
It's a disgusting denialist attitude from Aussies, when there is no greater injustice than removing children from their parents and culture.
Another show that shook me to the core was "Little Bird" about the "Scoop" period in Canada in the 1960's. Canada's residential schools were still active in the 80's. Canada and Australia have a parallel Colonial history.
Very sad film that sticks in your mind. Every scene with David Gulpilil is incredible. He has an amazing presence on screen.
RIP David Gulpilil, he captivated ever since I watched Walkabout for the every first time ❤
@@AClockworkTammy666 I still can’t believe he’s gone, I’m not Aboriginal or even Australian and I haven’t seen all his films but I was a big fan of his and I cried when he died.
He was in "Ten Canoes" too, right? That was a hell of a movie.
I read this was based on a true story and when I saw the end of this movie, I sobbed like a baby. I can't believe this horrible shit was done to the Aboriginal people. The fact that discrimination is still ongoing makes me so sick to my stomach.
This movie is so powerful. It is beautiful but heart breaking. I can't explain why I love it so much. It is such a terrible history- but something about it resonates inside of me, maybe my aboriginal heritage. It will always be one of my top favs.
I watched this movie, when I was 5. It was such gorgeous, that I remembered till today.
So strong movie. It's No.1 for me!
Same.
Same my mom showed me this movie .
These girls were STRONG!!!
Sounds like the British did the same thing that the U.S. did to Native children. So sad.
+AmyMc_clothesandmakeup I know. The British colonized Australia.
+AmyMc_clothesandmakeup well... it should be pretty common knowledge that Australia was colonised by the Europeans... but that aside... with your "normal obsessions", are you trying to insinuate that those of us who take the time to discuss these sorts of issues are strange? I would call it taking an interest in the greater society, and expanding your mind with new takes on the world... you just kinda back handed yourself...
I was thinking the same thing.... It's horrible 😭👎🏻
Ha that's happening in the black community now
And Canada for sure... 😔
I‘ll watch this in my English class soon and I think it’s such an interesting topic. And I‘m really glad that we learn about it in Germany
This movie makes me appreciate the year I was born in.
Because I was the first born half cast in my families.
To my grandmother's death bed, she hated and cursed the white men. But, hate gets us nowhere.
I remember first watching this movie. I was always reminded how lucky I was.
Because I was born with rights.
And though, my family suffered. Australia has come along way. That's all we can hope for, that we keep moving forward.
So you were half cast
I understand your grandmother hated white men but that's doing the same thing they were doing
Blaming someone just solely because of their race/colour.
THats the thing about this, using the holocaust as an example, some Germans hated Jewish people are used propaganda to decide others that they were right, and then they did horrible things to Jews. The same is in this situation, it wasn't everyone, and back then (even now) many hate Germans or white people in general despite 1. it wasn't all of them and 2. no one alive today has done this stuff and it's not fair to place the blame.
Sorry for this weird rant about hypocritical things
One of the most moving movies I have seen in my life.
We watched this in school. Pretty much the same thing happened here in Canada with indigenous people, they were called residential schools. Absolutely disgusting to see the chaos and destruction that Europeans have left worldwide
And then the sixties scoop after the residential schools, where tons and tons of indigenous kids were unnecessarily removed from their families by child protective services and adopted out to white families in Canada and the USA
This was practiced worldwide, America, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Central America, South America and many more places.
+Victoria Love it really is a terrifying thought
Katie Gordon Yes, all by white people. And nothing is being done because of white supremacy. They don't teach this worldwide, they change words around like trade worker instead of slaves, the melanated people are treated poorly in their own country, the list goes on.
are you insane? EVERY single race of people has done things similar or comparable to this smh, as if youre gonna sit there being racist asf and saying "all white people are evil". Disgusting, did you miss the morale of this movies story, have you even seen the movie?
Comeonmate7 You cannot even provide a good example. I never even said "all white people are evil" you suffer from psychosis, distorting reality. The indigenous people never lived in teepee's, mud hut, straw huts, etc, they lived in vast cities where pyramids were built.
"yes all by white people". What are you talking about? Plenty of cultures did this. The African slave traders who sold slaves to the Europeans. How about the current persecution of women and most non islamics in Africa and the middle east?
Aboriginal people are one of the most beautifulist skinned colour people on earth. I wish that the white settlement have never done those HORRIFIC things to the kind aboriginal people during the past. If time could come back I would change the history of those aborigines. I would not allow the stolen generation and the white settlement to be proud of discovering a land that have already been discovered by the clever aboriginal people.Just because of aboriginal people's skin colour are darker than others our hearts are all the same. We aren't different in any other ways on the inside.
Annabelle Cao Most white settlers just wanted to live in peace.
THICCmachine hahahahahaha rightio yeah kill the original people too live in that utopia
The RZ half the aussie people involved in this are dead im not trying to justify it im just saying
Annabelle Cao don’t say white peoples say English people
@@wolvesofthesea6354 you still occupy my land though
great movie, sadly aussies didn't learned anything from past. indigenous culture and languages should have been preserved and promoted. australia did had a beautiful culture sadly which was never promoted because of racism.
yuvisydney Very true much the same as what happened in America .
human beings are pretty gross, sad how there is stories like the aboriginals of australia in pretty much every single culture/continent on earth.
+Comeonmate7 South Africa was a good example with its Apartheid system
And present day Israel practices apartheid every day with the Palestinians.
+Krishna Narayanan that's actually quite interesting, when the European settlers/invaders whatever you want to call them, came to New Zealand they didn't try to take over because they recognised the Maori strength and structure of society, however when they came to Australia, they deemed the people already there in residence 'less than'/'underdeveloped', whatever it was that they thought.
What you're saying here is interesting because New Zealand is quite prideful and excepting of the Maori culture, whereas Australia, though not discriminatory, is quite dismissive of it on a social basis. Similar to stance taken by Americans towards their Native people's culture (i think, i'm not an American so i'm really just going off long distance observations). That being said there is still a lot of Aboriginal acknowledgement present in Australian society.
Open your history book
To this day one of the most traumatising movies I have ever watched.
I regularly watch (at least parts of) it with my students as part of history lessons on the topic of Imperialism/Racism, but even as an adult and a historian, I find it almost unbearable. What it felt like for the families I will never be able to fully grasp.
What a powerful story and an echo of what happened, in recent history, to the Native American, African Slave... The tenacity and strong will and mind of Molly and Gracie blow me away and their actions help to strengthen me when I think I have had enough and want to give up...there is light at the end of the tunnel and light on the way guiding us to our souls' truth...guiding us HOME! Strength, Love, and Healing to The Stolen Generation!
Watched this in history class in 6th grade and thought it was such a good film. Just remembered about it 4 years later
Are those fence still out there?
@@akashshinde4571yes, they are.
That movie up to this day remains my all time favourite.. ❤😢
One of the hardest movies to watch. Watched it twice second time with my mother and she couldnt finish it. RIP David Gulpilil.
I cry every time I see this movie,😢
It's an amazing movie I watched it in class today!
Yes it was. REALLY sad, but amazing. Gorgeous soundtrack too, by Peter Gabriel.
Same
Same :)
We are learning about it
Erin Berger So glad their showing this in school
"If they would only understand what we are trying to do for them". It is amazing and horrifying how completely out of touch with basic kindness or even decency that human beings have been throughout history.
Molly the brave and very clever..I watched this movie in school and I admired her qualities..I love it...
I remember watching this years ago. I didn't understand the moral of it, but now I do. Heartbreaking!
I chose to watch this when it came out as an adult, so I understood it well as I had read reviews first.
It went on all over the world as an attempt to Westernise even the most remote tribes and 'reach' them first by missionaries. But all that started in the Middle East, Greece and Egypt 2000 years ago with the Christianisation of the pagans and Jews.
Before Christianity began in Palestine the Jews mostly kept themselves to themselves and didn't force Judaism on Gentiles.
Then in the first century the early monks were destroying pagan temples, and statues and the Library of Aleexandria. Christianity. Then they spread all over Europe and people were forced to convert to it there. Then from Europe spread all over the world with colonisation starting five centuries ago with explorers and botanists first. Then missionaries and then invading armies.
There is now an attempt in Europe to rediscover the pagan past. The Renaissance starting in Italy was about the attempt to revert back to Classical philosophies, discoveries and way of life from Italy and Greece.
Around the same time I watched Whale Rider about a Maori girl who was the granddaughter of a tribal chief and raised by him as her father was living in Germany.
i remember watching this in year 5 (i'm australian) by the end of the movie not a single person in the classroom wasn't crying
i’m watching the trailer to be prepared for next week... our teacher is making us watch this and i’m going to cry so much ugh
The fact that they get kidnapped again and taken just kills me that it’s true .
I watched this movie with my parents when I was, I dunno, 6 or something. I need to watch again now that I have an understanding of history.
I saw the film at school ... I fell asleep but everyone cried at the end .
One of the saddest little details about this movie is the warden guy at the camp who's been brainwashed into hating his own heritage
I watched this movie in social studies class at school
i am watching this for English
Watched it today in my Geography Class that's why I'm here to find the full film.
+Ojie Olumese IM watching the full film on TV right now. Got it off the internet
Same😂
same
i remember my sister was watching this movie when she was in year 7, nd gor some reason it stuck eith me? just bits and fragments of this movie but it eas so powerful that i still remember jt
i had to watch this a week ago in social studies, lets just say i cried a lot because its a sad movie, and then i get bullied for caring about molly and her sisters, my class are so stupid and mean ;(
That Fucking Stupid When I Was The Only On That Cried Watching This At School No One Cared
lol
civilized my ass! what "civilized" people would do such horrid things to innocent people?!
+JaHaddy Jael bigoted idiots. The attitudes they had towards everything related to this was absolutely disgusting
I agree, but "civilized" equals "unfair sick disgusting treatment." That's the way it is. Anybody who doesn't submit to "civilized" are "freaks" or "abomination," and they need to be "fixed." It's only a matter of time until the world "fixes you" (like they fixed me). When eventually, you are too afraid to even call it out as it is. Welcome to Earth.
Katie Gordon Yes, it is, but what can we do? We're not the government.
I love this movie and storm boy who agrees?
Am I the only one who didn't watch it school? Lol
Well I Had To Watch This At School
i didn't watch it at school
I watched this movie in 5th grade.. (I'm going into grade 9 this year) and this movie is amazing! I think I cried while watching it.
Been 8 years how is life treating you as an adult ?
My teacher recommended this for my Australian history project. Wow just wow. We did a very horrible thing ;(
Yes you did.
'We' didnt do shit! The Elitists did. And arestill doing it.
InshaAllah God will set things straight for the Aboriginals ❤️🖤💛
This movie was so sad and heartbreaking :'(
I didn't know that in Australia racism was practiced disguised as service and slavery, just as it happened in the United States and South Africa, labor exploitation to deadly extremes, negative things in history.
I remember watching it in 6th grade.
I saw it in year 7. I'm 20 and still remember watching it at the age of 12.
Just wanted to know did this happen to the native people of America as well?
Yes sweetie :'( same with the Maori people of New Zealand :'(
yes....they kidnapped or forced native americans to let them attend their catholic church schools in order to indocrinate the white culture in them so that the kids would assimilate and not go against their white society. There is a move about it.
Freya Mulhall yes. I'm not Indigenous Australian or Native American, but this whole "stolen children, forced removal, and assimilation" history still upsets me. My heart breaks every time I watch the abduction scene.
Makiba U and during the Iron Age, sometimes the Romans would do this same forced removal and assimilation to the children in some Germanic tribes. Arminius, the man who defeated the Romans during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, was a Cherusci boy who was kidnapped from his village by the Romans and grew up with them.
Yes, and happened to all native people of all America, that is why native people in Peru and Mexico are so catholic, they achieved what they wanted, that is called The Missions. Very sad. There is a movie about it, I recommend it to you, The Mission is the name.
i have this film and i never thought they would make it
watching this in honor of daisy today. rip. we wont forget.
Wonderful representation of a true story.
I never heard of this movie until someone mentioned it today in the comments on a Facebook post about the Australian police arresting a pregnant woman in her home (and in her pajamas) for a social media post she made. I will try to see this film at some point.
2 days ago
Thanks for sharing🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇
I remember i watched when i was 16 or 15 years old with my mom we cried when we watch it , i remember it was shown on one tv channel and back then we didn’t know the name of the movie until now . It’s sad story but happy ending, should all original Australians don’t forget their history
I watched this movie in class today and it was amazing. Sadly the author of the book his movie is based on passed away a couple of days ago. I believe Molly or Daisy is her mother. Very intriguing movie.
No Molly's daughter wrote a book and people made a film based on it
I haven’t seen this movie for the last 19 years since I first saw it in cinemas back in February 2002
Christopher Doyle's incredible cinematography
I can have the full movie french version pliz ............
I cried in this movie give this comment a like if u seen this movie
damn 8 kids
It makes me sad to think my great grandmother had to go through this.... ( she was also the author of the book)😢
One of the very good films of our century / 4 out of 5
Years later and animals are treated with far more respect than us in this country.
You can't honestly believe that? 🤣 lmfao. You guys treat yourselves like trash, wake up. Have you even lived on a mission? Or you complaining from a comfy city paid for by centrelink. LOL
I want things to change. If only the people who have power thought the same. I wonder if the Voice will bring about substantial changes.
I like this movie. ANY account of people escaping ''society'' and running away into freedom is a good story. And this one is full of courage, intrepidity and intelligence. These girls are great!🥰
*Just like in the futuristic movie THX 1138, in which a man escapes a hellish ''utopian underground world," the cost to the state for bringing him back outweighs the benefits of letting him go.
He is only free when he rids himself of all the state's ''protections'' and goes up to the surface of the planet to take his chances with the elements, the possible radiation, starvation and the unknown.
best movie of all time
Yes!!! ❤
As a black man i will never repeat the same hate because of this movie.We one its just taking to long for some to get it as a whole.. Not all whites hate us.Its just sad that the good ones are born in it..slr.
I never even heard of this film but it's quite interesting to watch
can't wait to see the whole movie
I remember when I was a kid in the first time I saw this movie and the part that I remember was when the guy comes and he’s like takes the children away I’m never sitting in my classroom just fucking horrified as little kid
The cruel face of the West. Regardless of language, religion or race, no child deserves this cruelty.
I really want to see this movie! Looks really powerful.
i ve just finished reading the book.very nice
Never forget. Never repeat
I put this movie on hold at the library. It is a story of the inequality of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Where to watch this movie
where can i watch the full movie?
Netflix
Fantastic movie
deberian publicar la pelicula completa en linea ....
I would like to watch it. How can I buy or rent it? Thanks
Try amazon :)
Marcela Klein try putlocker
A film that changed my life.
Wher learning about this and I missed out on watching it in class so I’m ganna see is I can watch it
Watching this in our English class and damn is it depressing
Same
Same lmao
I am going to watch this next term. just came to see what the movie is about. looks like a very good and informative movie.
I watched this with my mom when I was 12 and then I heard that my brother was watching this movie in his class. The fact that this was based on a real event makes it even more depressing.
R.I.P. to the actress who played the mom
i'm glad there's no more of this now.
Especially since some people out who don't need to learn right from wrong, and the aboriginals are NOT all the same,
cause it's not the skin or the culture that makes them who they are, it's their choices. some go on to commit crimes in this country while others take a better road
頑張って！って思った。
途中で助けてくれた人達優しい。
こんな法律が意外と最近まであったと思うと
怖くなる。
I have to watch the whole movie of this and do a project on it at my new school. I feel like I’m going to cry. I hate this 😭😩
Super film !
Just saw this film with my class
@Nia Studying something is not blaming the current generation, it is coming to understand what has happened and how to avoid it ever happening again. We have people here in America that want to pretend that slavery or Jim Crow never happened, and if they had their way we would never be able to talk about it either.
but, it did happen and the effects are still reverberating through our society. People of color are still struggling against disadvantages that started back in the days of slavery and still persist to this day. No, we may not owe them an apology for what our ancestors did to their ancestors, but we do owe it to them to understand how past injustices have effected current generations and not use our white privilege to gain even more of an advantage over them.
Great and touching movie
Thanks heaps.
RIP Ningali lawford wolf 2019 .
I can't believe she's gone! :0
Gracie just wanted to go to her mom 😢
I know, but she never saw her mum or original family again 😢
Good film but it could've done with a better trailer
song name ???? pliiiz
I’m so lucky that my brother didn’t end up like them omg! My 6 year old brother is aboriginal and I’m just an Aussie an white Aussie If my brother end up like them I would ran away and find him!!
Yes guys, the treatment of the Aboriginal people was horrific and appalling, but please would all of you non-Australians look up the Stolen Generation before making big sweeping statements. This is a topic we (Australian high school students) have drilled into us right from the word go and we are quite well versed on the subject. We study it in English (literature), History, Legal Studies, etc. Did you know in Australian school nation-wide, we all have copies of Kevin Rudd's sorry speech to the Stolen Generation? Any of you know about the Mabo case? How many of you know about the sorry speech? The granddaughter of Eddie Mabo appeared on television a couple of years ago in a talent show and there were people (and yes, these people were in fact white) bowing with respect, yes it was an over dramatised thing, but in a respectful way, not disrespectful in the slightest. Please for the love of god would you stop foul mouthing the white people of the present day and realise that this oppression is no longer an acceptable part of Australian society, and if someone where to discriminate against a native person, they would be held strongly accountable for it by our legal system. I have never heard of an Aboriginal person (in the last couple of decades) being disadvantaged by society, only of them being given benefits based on their situation. Seriously look at Government policies. Please just lay off
+Katie Gordon The thing is, yes its a better situation today. The aboriginal population lived in peace for over 20.000 to 30.000 years, until about 230 years ago when new settlers invaded Australia and took their land and freedom. The Europeans murdered the aboriginals, kidnapped their children and took their home and culture.
+Aurora Nilsson yes it happened, and yes it was horrible. But we can't take back past atrocities. What's done is done, and if people continue to live in the past we'll never move forward.
Events have repeated themselves so many times over the course of history. Countries get invaded. People die. We are lucky to live in an age where that is no longer considered an acceptable course of action. The Europeans invading the Aboriginals is one more case of one society overtaking another. I'm by no means endorsing their actions, but I am tired of being told that I need to be sorry for it.
I personally, have done nothing at all to harm the Aboriginal people in person or by name, and I do not see why I should have to stand down and accept "all white people are horrible" and the such, because of something people I'm not even related to did. Even if I were distantly related to them I, or those around me who also do not mistreat the Aboriginal population, should not have to pay for the actions of people from a different time. They who have not even existed at same time as we have. The world was a different place back then. Shame the actions of those did the wrong, not those who are just trying to live in peace.
+Eric Mifsud calm the tone mate, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but I have yet to see a single argument telling me why I should allow myself to be ridiculed for something I did not do. Not only did I not do it, I had no power over it at all.
Not because I am a bystander, but because I wasn't even alive at the time. But I should think that, that would be obvious.
It's disgusting, horrifying, and appalling that these things occurred. Do they still? Are young Australian Indigenous girls and boys stolen from their communities for reasons based purely on their ethnicity?
And, this white crowd bowing to an indigenous girl (you missed the part about her being Mabo's granddaughter, kind of an important aspect, not just for her but the Mabo case is another example of society's code changing and growing - important milestones being achieved, I mean) is important. You're absolutely right, it does not fix "200 years of social *Darwinism and ethnocentrism" (not that those are particularly stable points...), but doesn't it show how far society has come? The respect held for what her name and her people represent?
And finally, "European man"... so does that mean you're not Australian? I'm not saying that if you aren't Australian you can't have an opinion, or anything like that, but if you aren't then you probably don't have the same level of exposure that we do to Aboriginal culture.
Oh yeah, also, please refrain from the profanities. They do absolutely nothing to further your point.
I'd love to have a proper discussion if you're up for it, because I want to hear the opinions of someone who disagrees with me, but if you can't be civilised then please take it elsewhere.
why are all your comments so long?
Because I have a horrendous habit of waffling on for extended periods of time. That and I also have the tendency to procrastinate (currently sitting the HSC).
Tragic - it's difficult to look at the aboriginals who are still badly treated in Australia. I have been there 6 times - great country but this is their disgrace..
it was a crime what was done to the aboriginals in their own country
very sad movie
A great movie so far that im watching in English!!!!!
Its so sad....
Can anyone explain what happened to Olive in the beginning of the movie. it kinda confusing to my friends and I!?!?!
She left the camp to go see her boyfriend and the tracker caught her and brought her back. Afterwards, she was put into the punishment shed where she was beaten and the nun cut her hair off.
I had to watch the movie for school when I was in year 7.