Wow! Im doing a speech about reconciliation and that has really helped me because before i didn't know all of what they did to those children and it really moved me amazing first video
True, it happened. And that is the past and is best to be forgotten. But the Aboriginals today are still harassed and discriminated. I believe that even if the past is forgotten, at least the present and future should be made better to these people who really are the owners of this land. Paul Keating built the foundation and Kevin Rudd took the first step. Now it is us that have to keep walking...
Im white (GREEK SPANISH BUT BORN HERE WITH PARETNS)and i know i cant talk but i dont think its all our fault I HATE THE WHITE PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY DID THOUGH .. I HAVE TONES OF ABORIGINAL FRIENDS THAT I HAVE ALOT OF RESPECT FOR
It happened in the U.S. but not to the scale that of the Australian goverments, my Grandmother hated whites until she died and never forgave them, I dont hold any hate for whites todays generation dont even know what happend back then. I have nothing but admiration of those who survived and lived despite the cruelties done to them. God bless the aboriginies and all native peoples.
I wish I could say something intelligent about this film and the music. But it leaves me feeling inadequate, mostly as a human, all I can do is tell friends to watch it.
@spudcustardx1 iknow what you mean. i sit here in tears and want to say something but i just cant. except this love and understand and if you cant, that just leave them alone. i think every human being could benefit from that.
I believe these stories around the world should not be forgotten, but acknowledged, respected by all. The Australian and Canadian governments have acknowledged the history. The USA has not. HIstory we don't acknowledge means the lessons have not been learned. Just an opinion.
@ilovemylifesblog agreed - the majority of US peeps will not acknowledge that this happened in the States ... but our elders in our native communities that remembered this sad chapter do - and they have passed this on to us - so we do acknowledge this sad history in our tribal communities as well - but as our elders taught us - don't dwell on it - movie on - so we have
@ilovemylifesblog So if the Americans do not acknowledge what they did then who is next to their future generations? 1 million dead Iraqis? Does your forgiveness sign the nexts death warrent??
we Native peeps in the States acknowledge that it was unfair .. and a brutal history .. but our elders taught us - get over it - move forward - that is the lesson we pass on to you
I'll never forget the day this movie showed. i was flicking tru the chanels and i saw the name and i was pissed like what the hell is a rabit proof fence . i was thinking like this must be some silly movie. but with nothing else to watch i said ill watch a bit. and i couldnt believe it. i was stuck to the TV.it made my eyes water.it makes u think what if you where in there position.alot of people wont take it serious cause they born into good families and lifestyle. ill never forget this movie.
The facts are simple, color was an issue for some of the uneducated who decended on Australias shores. Their bibles were not a moral compass, they used them as an excuse to abuse. Sadly it looks like many had no moral centre at all.
I hope that one day we "ALL" can learn a valuble lesson from this, because in reality, it only happened recently.
This movie is a very deep on many levels ,stemming from a socialogical aspect and psychological aspect aswell. This harms the future generations in that culture . It's a sad and evil thing that has an IS happening to the Aboriginals .
Australians - from one native peep in the States - don't blame yourselves for the hard lessons from our past - my native grandparents always taught us - it happened - get over it. You weren't there as they weren't when it happened - so move on - if you go backwards - we all get sick. Some of we native peeps in the States kinda share the same history.
I saw this movie again just last night. Maybe my 10th time watching from beginning to end. I always end up crying at the end. There are other movies that melt my heart like this one does. This song deserves millions of views IMO. I hope to be a strong heart like Gracie, Molly and Daisey. <3 AC
Can anyone help here? I was in Australia in 2005 and staying in Coober P. We went on a trip out to the "moon surface" ie where the noodling and Opal mining is "The Breakaways" i think its called and I have a picture of myself standing by a fence called the "Dog Fence" - now is this part of the original Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia?
It is a good reminder of the psychopathic (dog-eat-dog) system we tend to live in, where difference or outside-the-box cultures are treated with such discontent. Control-freak mentalities always tend to bring attrocities into the collective reality, and unfortunately have no boundaries. Inner tendencies to always try to perfect things, as some would say 'squaring things that are not square yet'.
We're learning about Australian history and the past's unfair treatment of Aboriginal people at my school, and we might be watching Rabbit Proof Fence, it will probably make me cry
I watched this movie twice in the same day. As others have said, it is haunting. I feel as if I know those children. I just can't stop thinking about it.
watched this last night, such a great film showing the "stolen generations". It was soo wrong what happened to them, and they are still recovering from it
Molly & Grace were removed from their families on the Jigalong Depot because of their "sexual activity " with white men.
This claim was born on a review of State Archives and a letter to A.O Neville in December 1930 by Mrs Chellow from Murra Munda Station near Jigalong, in which Molly and Gracie were accused of "Running wild with the whites". Runing wild was a euphemism for promiscuity, which ment the girls were having sex with white men...... Is this claim able to be proven ? Comments please.
@armalite762. not true at all. they were all kids when they were stolen. read the book by Doris Pilkington (Molly's daughter). Same title. Even so, why would promiscuity be a reason to remove someone from their home? Why not remove the white men too then? Read more about the Stolen Generation and you will find all sorts of false claims made by the then Australian govt to justify what I view as slavery.
The information was from W.A. state archives and I guess if it were true?, The girls at such a young age, one would expect the children to be removed for their own protection, as it would clearly indicate the parents were not capable of looking after them. The white men involved should therefore also have been removed " jailed " for indecent dealings with minors or rape, whichever may have been the case. I wonder if there is any evidence of this in those archive files.
@armalite762 that's exactly how the govt then wanted people to think...that the aborigines were incapable of taking care of their children and thus they had to be taken away. and on your last point, there is no evidence of the white men being taken away because there was no such case. even if there was, the white men would've been left where they were.
You obviously didn't understand the film. How would shooting that tale in a 'spiderman' way be relevant to that period in time or the fact that it is from a child's perspective? You just didnt enjoy the genre. Fine. But it isn't stupid.
no... american gangster was set a long tiem ago. but they filmed it well. it didn't look like a film produced in this decade. it looked like it was made in the 80's
well what do u expect in this move. cool computer gadgets! this movie was made so that people could so what it was like....so the year in this movie they were reacting was between 1869-1969 so what do u think!
thats because this movie was going for that style and of the time it was set. i must admit, this may not be the most professionally made film around, but it was very effective in what it set to achieve and got a very good turn out. all in all this was a very successful movie.
Amazing video! Amazing soundtrack! Amazing movie! Amazing story! And what makes it worse is to think that we here in Canada did exactly the same thing.
Agree with you! this movie's amazing and makes me cry a lot. and more when they said that's real. respect to the little actresses who played for the first time! it wasn't difficult for sur to play their own story it's in their mind. I've seen it 15 years ago for the first time in france. respect for native australia, america and african who 's been stolen to! thank for the video it's very touching can't stop watching it. like you aquabluegrl this movie haunted me.story, actresses and the music.
o yeah..???? And where are you from..??? USA, right..???? So look at Native Americans and think where you came from... EVERYBODY should stay home and let the other people live their own life....
inspiring, heartbreaking and captivating a tale so deep even to this day I am taken away when I watch the movie just as if it were my first time seeing it. Not many stories haunt you and when tales of this come they never leave you and again it brings you to the reality of today and what has been just makes me appreciate what I love and cherish the most around me. I am in awe of the courage and determination and your vid is wonderful thanks xoxoxo
I watched this in SOSE cause we're talking about half-castes and stuff, I felt ashamed because of that and I'm a white person. I mean the white guy thought he was doing the right thing so I can accept that, but its soo sad I mean Molly is one smart girl, and they're all very lucky apart from the fact Gracie was recaptured and taken back
we watched this movie today @ school its gonna b our topic for this term i think its sad but still a lovely movie we got up to the part when the girl Gracie got captured again its so sad!! it nearly made me wanna cry :''(
Its not surprising that Indigenous Australians are suspicious and full of hatred towards whites when you look at the history. There were years of denial that went with the policy of assimilation, do you know what that policy meant? Ethnic cleansing of mixed heritage aborigines. They were loving peaceful people until will arrived and their mythology is beautiful.
no, the part wen the girls go to dis oder house with this aboriginal lady and at night sum one was in there room and then they ran to hide in the bush coz they saw the black man but the black man saw them and just took off and left the girls alone because the same thing happened to that blakck man
iivv jusst watchtccheed itt in mii rs claass omg iwas like crying thorugh all of itt :( soo saadd i cant beloive hooww tthey just tok a hole genaration becasue of there SKIN Geeezz and based on a true sttoorry im soo gladd i am booron when iwaass !!!!!!! v-good fil :)
also ich bin auch aus deutschland , i`m from germany too
ich hab den film auch in meiner englisch stunde gesehen und musst sowas von weinen ...i have seen this movie in an english lesson too and i had to cry a lot
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Yeah, but payback is a biatch, whites becoming a minority group everywhere as the third world population explodes and floods into every majority white nation to replace them! Even in Scandinavia the schools are full of Arabs and Africans, by 2050 whites will be about 1% of the worlds people. Going the same place the Dinosaurs went and they seem to enjoy the idea of their extinction! lmao
Well, I don't think of it as extinction, even if the white skin coloration did 'die out.' I also know that every culture, practically, on Earth has been cruel towards some seemingly weaker or disadvantaged peoples. It's NOT just European-derived/ those of caucausin status that have a history of tearing apart cultures, a history of trying to 'assimilate' or destroy outright another culture. You see it throughout history. What is truly important is the individual spirit; we are nuts, collectively.
whats sad is the fact that nearly every indigenous race in the world has suffered because of the white man. aboriginis, native americans, ameridians, maoris etc
And of course there is a lot of violence even between non-Caucasoid peoples/ heritages too. The Chinese against the Tibetans, the Japanese against the Chinese (and vice versa), the Apache against the Cherokee etc. Humans seem, oftentimes, an almost deranged and paranoid race. I use race only to describe all human peoples...and as a whole, we don't have a very good track record. INDIVIDUALS have shown that we can be infinitely compassionate, but as a species we are usually brutal. :/
I love Indigenous cultures, cultures that in general pursue a more harmonious life with the environment and dont seek to expand. They've payed a heavy price for this. The Ainu in Japan, Aboriginals in Australia, Native Americans, Maori, Pygmies, San Bushmen, Saami in Norway, Amazon tribes etc.
One example of hypocrisy from the western media on human rights was in 2002, when the government of Botswana expelled the Kalahari Bushmen from the lands that they had lived on for twenty thousand years. Botswana's government described the San as "stone age creatures" and compared the act to "the culling of elephants". Yet the same western media, that makes a huge deal about the oppression of white farmers in Zimbabwe, decided the Bushmen expulsion wasnt worth covering on the news
What is interesting is that when I was at my sickest with a bleeding ulcer, after 5 YEARS of battling it, with every friggin' drug western medicine had to offer, it was matula tea - a nostrum created with plant materials that were cultivated by the San peoples, that actually got rid of the ulcer. It was their ancient healing that did the trick. Not the drugs of my culture. It was THEIR knowledge which changed my life. The drugs only led to gastroparesis... If only we respected their widsom.
I had the same problems with ulcers, but unlike you I haven't come across this matula tea, which I'm going to research as soon as I post this comment. I had to changed my diet, or suffer the consequences of excruciating pain.
Yes, ulcers suck majorly...don't they? No, after the tea that my mum got...it took a few weeks, but I was completely healed.
It kills the bacterium that causes ulcers (most ulcers, anyway) - h. pylori. But some ulcers are caused by other things (although these types are very rare). You should have a doctor confirm the presence of the bacterium, though. :) And yeah, the tea worked for me when nothing would (the medications and proton pump inhibitors cut down on symptoms; I still felt sick.)
In the scene where the children are ripped away, the characters that play the grandmother and mother are actually crying for real, it is a moment that evokes real personal memories from their own families. The scene is a take.
the women remain in the position that you see in the film actually grieving. You cant get more real than that scence.
Princessportent, thank you very much for making an effort and posting it. I watched the movie while travelling in Australia last year. Found it hard to watch. I remember feeling shocked when I discovered "sorry" hadn't been uttered. So were my students. Glad that it finally was said. Pity I couldn't buy the CD anywhere before I left as I wanted to show it to my friends back home..
Yes...I can also say that I was shocked that it took so long for change to occur.
Sometimes I cannot believe how the compassionate are still mocked, generally, in this society. In this world. There are so many issues that seem so obvious...that need to be corrected...and whole societies still are caught in the tug of war between 'master' and 'slave' and it's all so debilitating for both sides! If the need to lord over another was extinguished, as a human feature, I think we'd REALLY evolve.
i've just seen the movie... one more proof that shows how the western culture "consumed" native cultures of the so called "new worlds" in the name of progress, science, religion etc etc...
it should be a lesson in schools for the young ones to learn and avoid making the horrible mistakes of the past generations...
I agree. Ethical Philosophy should be brought into the schools when children are young. It doesn't have to be jargon-ladden, but it SHOULD be present. If children were taught to question their beliefs/ bias' and encouraged to relate to a situation from the perspective of another, we'd have an infinitely more beautiful and compassionate and rich world. It wouldn't be so spiritually impoverished. And it's not about NEEDING something more - just using the heart and mind that is bestowed.
I'd like to share my input into this. My grand mother was a part of the Stolen Generation. What happened was unforgiveable and hard to think about. The videos sad, not to mention hard to watch.
The formal apology made alot of Aboriginal, well at least the one's where I come from, happier, were touched and what was seen to be unforgiveable forgiveable. This recognition is something that has been longed for, for many years and has been achieved by saying sorry. I applaud. The actor, Everlyn Sampi, is a cousin of mine just to put that out there.
We're watching this in Australian Studies but I've seen it a few times before.
Though I believe think that the people who took the children away believe what they were doing was right, it doesn't change the fact that they tore families apart.
I believe we make mistakes in the past so we don't repeat them in the future and I hope that we don't.
I hope that people will move forward, not forget, and that we as Australians are able to build a new community.
Don't get upset hockeyfan431. The way I see it, if people try to hurt you deliberately, they are not worth getting upset over. And if they AREN'T trying to hurt you, then it's mostly...miscommunication issues, right??
Although you are more than entitled to your anger.
While I agree that each person is responsible for his/her OWN actions, I don't think it's in any way fair to say that aboriginals are "the most racist." In arguing for that, you are generating more anger amongst two groups that already don't have a good history (as one was subjected, more or less to abuse and slavery at the hands of the other).
Aboriginals have GREAT reason for anger; those that actually were taken from their families are only naturally going to be more distrustful of other cultures now. This doesn't make them racist, imho.
But I very much agree with you...it's up to EACH person to treat each and every other person with openness and a lack of bias. Because we AREN'T our parents, or grandparents. We are more than our blood, our genetics.
the idea isnt about revenge. your meant to learn from it, to create a better environment. even though it was wrong, disgustingly wrong, the people of the time thought it was right.
anyway cheers for the video, i got to study it for my hsc helped out heaps.
I totally agree. Many DID see what they were doing as right. In so far as they did, and did not also commit the abuses that did occur in certain residental schools - then they seem less like these horrible people, and more like...very lost, very unseeing people.
I think I always felt different, and I didn't fit in when little, and sometimes being on the outside can make you really...feel for others. Sometimes it's good not to have TOO easy a life. I think some pain can make people more compassionate. Too much can make them bitter and hard, too.
could sum1 tell me the name of the song at 1 min 56 seconds plz weill be much appreciated this was my grandads fave film and he passed away so i would be very grate ful if u told me the track of 2 min onwards thank write back
I'm pretty sure the entire track is "Gracie's Recapture" by Peter Gabriel. It is a fantastic song. I remember that it played during the end credits of the movie, and during the disc menu of the DVD.
if u have seen the film u will relise the true horrors of wot went on when the chidren wre removed from there homes.And just because of the colour of there skin ??? anyway great slideshow and music heartbreaking to see that Gracie doesnt make it
The norwegian social workers, "barnevernet", are doing just the same to us, they classified parents as "not human" and then steel our children... Please, help us!
I don't think that Neville had ill intent. He, like many before him, was blinded by arrogance and the belief that there is only one right way. When we live within walls and are too afraid to look beyond for the things we do not understand, we fail to reach the deeper understanding, we fail to understand the other point of view. In some way or another, we all suffer this. We did it then, we are doing it now, and we will repeat it tomorrow. Only those willing to embrace diversity can move beyond.
Wow! Im doing a speech about reconciliation and that has really helped me because before i didn't know all of what they did to those children and it really moved me amazing first video
missgroovyweirdo 2 months ago
Alot of long comments. WTF and people are intelligent
oh well.
I like the part where grandma hits 2 sticks together and says:
hangare hangare hangare
SuperCreativeBuilder 3 months ago
True, it happened. And that is the past and is best to be forgotten. But the Aboriginals today are still harassed and discriminated. I believe that even if the past is forgotten, at least the present and future should be made better to these people who really are the owners of this land. Paul Keating built the foundation and Kevin Rudd took the first step. Now it is us that have to keep walking...
Ravini94 3 months ago
Im white (GREEK SPANISH BUT BORN HERE WITH PARETNS)and i know i cant talk but i dont think its all our fault I HATE THE WHITE PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY DID THOUGH .. I HAVE TONES OF ABORIGINAL FRIENDS THAT I HAVE ALOT OF RESPECT FOR
videogirl991 11 months ago
It happened in the U.S. but not to the scale that of the Australian goverments, my Grandmother hated whites until she died and never forgave them, I dont hold any hate for whites todays generation dont even know what happend back then. I have nothing but admiration of those who survived and lived despite the cruelties done to them. God bless the aboriginies and all native peoples.
Krylogenic 1 year ago
I wish I could say something intelligent about this film and the music. But it leaves me feeling inadequate, mostly as a human, all I can do is tell friends to watch it.
spudcustardx1 1 year ago 10
@spudcustardx1 iknow what you mean. i sit here in tears and want to say something but i just cant. except this love and understand and if you cant, that just leave them alone. i think every human being could benefit from that.
asevedo1 7 months ago
@spudcustardx1 Powerful words my friend and beautifully said
MovieMad007 3 weeks ago
I believe these stories around the world should not be forgotten, but acknowledged, respected by all. The Australian and Canadian governments have acknowledged the history. The USA has not. HIstory we don't acknowledge means the lessons have not been learned. Just an opinion.
ilovemylifesblog 1 year ago
@ilovemylifesblog agreed - the majority of US peeps will not acknowledge that this happened in the States ... but our elders in our native communities that remembered this sad chapter do - and they have passed this on to us - so we do acknowledge this sad history in our tribal communities as well - but as our elders taught us - don't dwell on it - movie on - so we have
soxmonki 1 year ago
@ilovemylifesblog So if the Americans do not acknowledge what they did then who is next to their future generations? 1 million dead Iraqis? Does your forgiveness sign the nexts death warrent??
srtjuhhhtr 8 months ago
we Native peeps in the States acknowledge that it was unfair .. and a brutal history .. but our elders taught us - get over it - move forward - that is the lesson we pass on to you
soxmonki 1 year ago 3
I'll never forget the day this movie showed. i was flicking tru the chanels and i saw the name and i was pissed like what the hell is a rabit proof fence . i was thinking like this must be some silly movie. but with nothing else to watch i said ill watch a bit. and i couldnt believe it. i was stuck to the TV.it made my eyes water.it makes u think what if you where in there position.alot of people wont take it serious cause they born into good families and lifestyle. ill never forget this movie.
dreadfulsoundz 1 year ago 2
@dreadfulsoundz
yes this movie a true story im white my self but yes the white people take slaves from other people's families thats a sad thing and so lame
q8shiaprince 1 year ago
It broke my heart to watch this.
The facts are simple, color was an issue for some of the uneducated who decended on Australias shores. Their bibles were not a moral compass, they used them as an excuse to abuse. Sadly it looks like many had no moral centre at all.
I hope that one day we "ALL" can learn a valuble lesson from this, because in reality, it only happened recently.
I'll never forget this movie.....Ever!
Eedgit 1 year ago
@Eedgit it happened very sadly in South Africa in 1980's with Apartheid.
MovieMad007 1 year ago
@MovieMad007 Your absolutely right on the money hon, it did indeed happen in SA.
It makes you wonder how long it will take for some to learn from this eh.
Eedgit 1 year ago
This movie is a very deep on many levels ,stemming from a socialogical aspect and psychological aspect aswell. This harms the future generations in that culture . It's a sad and evil thing that has an IS happening to the Aboriginals .
IRONMEDIA2003 1 year ago
Australians - from one native peep in the States - don't blame yourselves for the hard lessons from our past - my native grandparents always taught us - it happened - get over it. You weren't there as they weren't when it happened - so move on - if you go backwards - we all get sick. Some of we native peeps in the States kinda share the same history.
soxmonki 1 year ago 6
@soxmonki Spot on, Thank you!
corindi 1 year ago
I saw this movie again just last night. Maybe my 10th time watching from beginning to end. I always end up crying at the end. There are other movies that melt my heart like this one does. This song deserves millions of views IMO. I hope to be a strong heart like Gracie, Molly and Daisey. <3 AC
AquarielCharm 1 year ago
The movie is terribly sad. But i like the music.
SomeoneLikeHer 1 year ago
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Fuck you you white cunts. Its our land why dont you fuck off to England.
If you keep giving us money for having kids we will breed you cunts out any way and we will take back for what is rightfully ours.
Then we will be the ones with the guns.
Your already to scared to look at us in the street.
001dangermouse 1 year ago
@001dangermouse you sound just like the perpetrators of this horror. you're just a hater. with good reason, maybe, but a hater none the less.
uemciicmeu 1 year ago
Can anyone help here? I was in Australia in 2005 and staying in Coober P. We went on a trip out to the "moon surface" ie where the noodling and Opal mining is "The Breakaways" i think its called and I have a picture of myself standing by a fence called the "Dog Fence" - now is this part of the original Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia?
MovieMad007 1 year ago
Nice. VERY nice. :-)
BillyJoeVegas 1 year ago
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It is a good reminder of the psychopathic (dog-eat-dog) system we tend to live in, where difference or outside-the-box cultures are treated with such discontent. Control-freak mentalities always tend to bring attrocities into the collective reality, and unfortunately have no boundaries. Inner tendencies to always try to perfect things, as some would say 'squaring things that are not square yet'.
robmij 1 year ago
We're learning about Australian history and the past's unfair treatment of Aboriginal people at my school, and we might be watching Rabbit Proof Fence, it will probably make me cry
DimSimToughBitch 1 year ago
Just those damned christian doing their damn best work.
no1saphead 1 year ago
I watched this movie twice in the same day. As others have said, it is haunting. I feel as if I know those children. I just can't stop thinking about it.
joycekiersten 1 year ago 2
thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks good job!
LOVEPARADE1998 1 year ago
excellent movie but terribly sad!
i held back my tears in the traleir but now i have to watch it in school
this movie shows a lesson to some people in the world, a true story
GIRLS ROCK ;P
gorotogoro 1 year ago 3
Very well Done!!!! - best tribute video - this will help me so much in my assignment that I have to do.
HomeandAway4eva01 1 year ago
Anyone who watches this movie and remains unmoved by it is a soulless piece of uselessness.
I hope and pray there is really a heaven, not for myself, but for children such as these..
TatarInExile 1 year ago 4
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TatarInExile 1 year ago
Great movie! God Bless those little girls..........who later grew old, longivity is the key...............
TariusShinobi 1 year ago
watched it yesterday. awesome movie !
Lucykiim 1 year ago
watched it last night too on BBC ONE i was crying especially when she lost the other sister
diva381243 1 year ago
@diva381243
that was her cousin Gracie =)
not a sister =D
cyrusso 1 year ago
watched this last night, such a great film showing the "stolen generations". It was soo wrong what happened to them, and they are still recovering from it
dolly32112 1 year ago
this is proof of beutifull true love!! our world we live in is pure evil!!!
X0Madeleine0X 1 year ago
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TatarInExile 1 year ago
neville was a rascist modafuka
luved this movie couldnt stop cryin
randeeorg 1 year ago
Thanks Princessporten, another timeless Peter Gabriel classic...
Unilka 1 year ago
Thanks portent!
JThos99 2 years ago
Molly & Grace were removed from their families on the Jigalong Depot because of their "sexual activity " with white men.
This claim was born on a review of State Archives and a letter to A.O Neville in December 1930 by Mrs Chellow from Murra Munda Station near Jigalong, in which Molly and Gracie were accused of "Running wild with the whites". Runing wild was a euphemism for promiscuity, which ment the girls were having sex with white men...... Is this claim able to be proven ? Comments please.
armalite762 2 years ago
@armalite762. not true at all. they were all kids when they were stolen. read the book by Doris Pilkington (Molly's daughter). Same title. Even so, why would promiscuity be a reason to remove someone from their home? Why not remove the white men too then? Read more about the Stolen Generation and you will find all sorts of false claims made by the then Australian govt to justify what I view as slavery.
mamohato 2 years ago
The information was from W.A. state archives and I guess if it were true?, The girls at such a young age, one would expect the children to be removed for their own protection, as it would clearly indicate the parents were not capable of looking after them. The white men involved should therefore also have been removed " jailed " for indecent dealings with minors or rape, whichever may have been the case. I wonder if there is any evidence of this in those archive files.
armalite762 2 years ago
@armalite762 that's exactly how the govt then wanted people to think...that the aborigines were incapable of taking care of their children and thus they had to be taken away. and on your last point, there is no evidence of the white men being taken away because there was no such case. even if there was, the white men would've been left where they were.
mamohato 2 years ago
Focus on the issue u dickheads.
sharvie73 2 years ago 3
cute kids!
liketammysaids 2 years ago
omg... i watch this video today at school.
i cry the whole time.
its a great video.
ana95s 2 years ago
those girls are beautiful. i want to see this movie
thatkid1011 2 years ago
Yea.... They are.....
mroziuklukas11 2 years ago
This movie makes me think about things in this world.
maria2angel73 2 years ago
Me too. and how the world sucks
susanwilson13 1 year ago
You obviously didn't understand the film. How would shooting that tale in a 'spiderman' way be relevant to that period in time or the fact that it is from a child's perspective? You just didnt enjoy the genre. Fine. But it isn't stupid.
06edmondsonl 2 years ago
no... american gangster was set a long tiem ago. but they filmed it well. it didn't look like a film produced in this decade. it looked like it was made in the 80's
trappedteen 2 years ago
one can only assume that you have the brain capacity of a squashed flea trappedteen
sedoble 2 years ago
well what do u expect in this move. cool computer gadgets! this movie was made so that people could so what it was like....so the year in this movie they were reacting was between 1869-1969 so what do u think!
susanwilson13 2 years ago
thats because this movie was going for that style and of the time it was set. i must admit, this may not be the most professionally made film around, but it was very effective in what it set to achieve and got a very good turn out. all in all this was a very successful movie.
damnation2424 2 years ago
Amazing video! Amazing soundtrack! Amazing movie! Amazing story! And what makes it worse is to think that we here in Canada did exactly the same thing.
waivedwench 2 years ago
studying this film in engish,
i cryed LODAS
i couldnt understand why some people were laughing , i was discusted. :(
daddysfamousbabygirl 2 years ago 4
gd job
susanwilson13 2 years ago
this is amazing movie is AWESOME
joshstick02303 2 years ago
This is a beautiful heart touching
film first time i saw it i could not
stop crying and not to many movies
make me cry just mostly true stories..
aquabluegrl 2 years ago 3
Agree with you! this movie's amazing and makes me cry a lot. and more when they said that's real. respect to the little actresses who played for the first time! it wasn't difficult for sur to play their own story it's in their mind. I've seen it 15 years ago for the first time in france. respect for native australia, america and african who 's been stolen to! thank for the video it's very touching can't stop watching it. like you aquabluegrl this movie haunted me.story, actresses and the music.
ThePeaceandlove44 2 years ago
"Gracie`s Recapture" is a FINE track by Peter Gabriel - the WHOLE soundtrack "Long Walk Home" by Gabriel is GREAT - check it out !
Cimbarius 2 years ago 2
An excellent movie, and nice video about the subject matter...
Barot8 2 years ago
this is why the british should stay in their island
pheonixmon1 2 years ago 3
o yeah..???? And where are you from..??? USA, right..???? So look at Native Americans and think where you came from... EVERYBODY should stay home and let the other people live their own life....
mroziuklukas11 2 years ago
look at my profile and decide if im american or not
pheonixmon1 2 years ago
i loved this movie it was so sad. it made me cry.
sophiem09 2 years ago
It's a beautiful and sad movie.
I love it.
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PranxMultimedia 2 years ago
inspiring, heartbreaking and captivating a tale so deep even to this day I am taken away when I watch the movie just as if it were my first time seeing it. Not many stories haunt you and when tales of this come they never leave you and again it brings you to the reality of today and what has been just makes me appreciate what I love and cherish the most around me. I am in awe of the courage and determination and your vid is wonderful thanks xoxoxo
angeldeeva 2 years ago 19
Wow Nice touching speech!
I agree with you
:-)
susanwilson13 2 years ago
I watched this in SOSE cause we're talking about half-castes and stuff, I felt ashamed because of that and I'm a white person. I mean the white guy thought he was doing the right thing so I can accept that, but its soo sad I mean Molly is one smart girl, and they're all very lucky apart from the fact Gracie was recaptured and taken back
MissHalloKitty 2 years ago
I've seen this film like 5 times at school, and it makes me cry every time, It's just so heart breaking
Girlfriend4real 2 years ago
nice try
crip23walk23 2 years ago
it is soo sad
killas38 2 years ago
This was deep, I still find it hard to hold the tears back when I watch this.
kiora07 2 years ago
It's an AWESOME video =) and the film is great! i loved it!
beyondblue533 2 years ago
we watched this movie today @ school its gonna b our topic for this term i think its sad but still a lovely movie we got up to the part when the girl Gracie got captured again its so sad!! it nearly made me wanna cry :''(
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naruto4evacouples 2 years ago
eu chorei quando eles pegaram a Gracie
aninhadomalbr 2 years ago
thanks,شــــــــــكرا
LOVEPARADE1998 2 years ago
If you liked this see "The Tracker"
Its about time this was out in the open.
1BustedMyth 2 years ago
i watched the film its so sad
ALSROX 2 years ago 3
It's same what's happen to my nation many years ago.
And maybe we had more badly and sadly live then aboriginal people they took our kids to the camps and kill them one by one
until they Arrived to our head that makes our breath Poor breathing in this world
We are Assyrians we came from Assyria and we have been ( 6789 )in this world .
From the beginning of ( 6789 ) years we were alive .
And we are alive now .
And we will be alive until the death
Assyrians from Assyria
0431037160 2 years ago 2
Its not surprising that Indigenous Australians are suspicious and full of hatred towards whites when you look at the history. There were years of denial that went with the policy of assimilation, do you know what that policy meant? Ethnic cleansing of mixed heritage aborigines. They were loving peaceful people until will arrived and their mythology is beautiful.
Kirstenmilton 3 years ago 25
dunsborough, WA. 3 hours south of perth, on the coast.
Lillemalina 3 years ago
it must be cool to live ther!
PianoNotez 2 years ago
Are you talking about the part when Molly was carrying her sister and cousin over the rocks?
Nikela1986 3 years ago
no, the part wen the girls go to dis oder house with this aboriginal lady and at night sum one was in there room and then they ran to hide in the bush coz they saw the black man but the black man saw them and just took off and left the girls alone because the same thing happened to that blakck man
kungFuGirl01 3 years ago
nice movie, but it makes me sad at the same time, i disliked that black man when looking for the girls seriously
GSBotswana 3 years ago
wen i stayed in australia i watched this and it was such a beautiful movie and its stuck in my head but i loove it so much ^ ^
kungFuGirl01 3 years ago
i just watched it in my english class so sad (im from canada)
Crecre22 3 years ago
The same thing happened in canada.
replicantrunaway 3 years ago
This is in my top 3 favorite movies. I love it.
March1stgirl 3 years ago 2
i love the movie, one of my favourites. gosh, i get aussie-sick again - just returned from a 5-month-exchange. wanna go back...:( (i'm from italy)
Lillemalina 3 years ago
iivv jusst watchtccheed itt in mii rs claass omg iwas like crying thorugh all of itt :( soo saadd i cant beloive hooww tthey just tok a hole genaration becasue of there SKIN Geeezz and based on a true sttoorry im soo gladd i am booron when iwaass !!!!!!! v-good fil :)
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katfle195 3 years ago
this movie is sooooo great...
we watched it in school...
in english lesson (i´m from germany)
girlygogo 3 years ago
me too
also ich bin auch aus deutschland , i`m from germany too
ich hab den film auch in meiner englisch stunde gesehen und musst sowas von weinen ...i have seen this movie in an english lesson too and i had to cry a lot
Silvi1006 3 years ago
One of if not the greatest Australian films - brilliant - lovely tribute.
IlGino15 3 years ago
Its called "Gracies recapture" By Peter Gabriel. I only read that after i posted the comment. Oops =)
itsotay5432 3 years ago
Hey There. Does anyone know the name of the song that is playing in the back ground?
itsotay5432 3 years ago
read the video description, its displayed there
drakeisbak18 3 years ago
Princessportent could you please tell me the name of the song played at 2:10 thankyou very much
raffoul09 3 years ago
its from the movie, if you read the video description the name and artist is diplayed there
drakeisbak18 3 years ago
The entire piece from the beginning to the end of this 'video' is "Gracie's Recapture." :)
Princessportent 2 years ago 2
@Princessportent That bit of the movie where they capture Gracie after she got so far is the saddest bit. I nearly cried the first time I saw it!
jazzykid1 1 year ago
@raffoul09 The sound is a derivation of one of Peter's previous songs called Sky Blue.
GumbyTheBorg 1 year ago
@raffoul09 This sound, and particularly the part at 2:10, is partially derived from Peter's song "Sky Blue". Hope that helps
GumbyTheBorg 1 year ago
@raffoul09 This sound, and particularly the part at 2:10, is partially derived from Peter's song "Sky Blue". Hope that helps
GumbyTheBorg 1 year ago
I watched this in class today, very sad movie.
they went threw so much. i cryed during the movie :P
yanz0r 3 years ago
we just finished watching this in class before half yterm
xXxRainbowMaexXx 3 years ago
I loved this movie
I just finished watching it in class today
It was touching ;)
vanessaiz2cute 3 years ago
The baby sister was the cutest little girl my eyes had ever seen.
dwaynewadeispeng91 3 years ago
I know! Weren't they adorable little girls??
Princessportent 3 years ago
yes they were
SiiSTALUV 3 years ago
i watched this movie last night on the BBC and wow this movie really moved me.....
Splitpersonality07 3 years ago
i watched it on BBC too, with my little brother. It was so powerful. An older sister's love is a really good thing.
dwaynewadeispeng91 3 years ago
So beautiful people & cultrure in any way.
It makes me Sick, what happened to them!
CoconutIsle 3 years ago
This was such a sad movie.
But it was interesting.
After Gracie got caught
what happened to her.
ChrissillaFinnilla 3 years ago
gracie sadly gets killed by them because when u excape n yer caught the hurt u / beat u
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Aetopus 3 years ago 2
i fel u this is a very sad movie
mhsfball07 3 years ago
i love this movie i never really understood it until i watched i again when i was 9. its crazy why would people want to hurt other people so much.
keke2796 3 years ago 2
this is so sad
partyladygirl 3 years ago 4
whats the piece of music called when the girls escape the camp in the beginning?
skippyisirish 3 years ago
Running to the Rain :)
I put it up too ;)
Princessportent 3 years ago
Yeah, but payback is a biatch, whites becoming a minority group everywhere as the third world population explodes and floods into every majority white nation to replace them! Even in Scandinavia the schools are full of Arabs and Africans, by 2050 whites will be about 1% of the worlds people. Going the same place the Dinosaurs went and they seem to enjoy the idea of their extinction! lmao
MikeHawkins 3 years ago
Well, I don't think of it as extinction, even if the white skin coloration did 'die out.' I also know that every culture, practically, on Earth has been cruel towards some seemingly weaker or disadvantaged peoples. It's NOT just European-derived/ those of caucausin status that have a history of tearing apart cultures, a history of trying to 'assimilate' or destroy outright another culture. You see it throughout history. What is truly important is the individual spirit; we are nuts, collectively.
Princessportent 3 years ago
Had to play this video 1 more time before turning off my computer for the night. Good Lord how I love this movie & the soundtrack.
Good night all ♥♥
Aetopus 3 years ago
whats sad is the fact that nearly every indigenous race in the world has suffered because of the white man. aboriginis, native americans, ameridians, maoris etc
SLASH57062 3 years ago
I know.
And of course there is a lot of violence even between non-Caucasoid peoples/ heritages too. The Chinese against the Tibetans, the Japanese against the Chinese (and vice versa), the Apache against the Cherokee etc. Humans seem, oftentimes, an almost deranged and paranoid race. I use race only to describe all human peoples...and as a whole, we don't have a very good track record. INDIVIDUALS have shown that we can be infinitely compassionate, but as a species we are usually brutal. :/
Princessportent 3 years ago
I love Indigenous cultures, cultures that in general pursue a more harmonious life with the environment and dont seek to expand. They've payed a heavy price for this. The Ainu in Japan, Aboriginals in Australia, Native Americans, Maori, Pygmies, San Bushmen, Saami in Norway, Amazon tribes etc.
kiriakufromcyprus 3 years ago 2
One example of hypocrisy from the western media on human rights was in 2002, when the government of Botswana expelled the Kalahari Bushmen from the lands that they had lived on for twenty thousand years. Botswana's government described the San as "stone age creatures" and compared the act to "the culling of elephants". Yet the same western media, that makes a huge deal about the oppression of white farmers in Zimbabwe, decided the Bushmen expulsion wasnt worth covering on the news
kiriakufromcyprus 3 years ago
What is interesting is that when I was at my sickest with a bleeding ulcer, after 5 YEARS of battling it, with every friggin' drug western medicine had to offer, it was matula tea - a nostrum created with plant materials that were cultivated by the San peoples, that actually got rid of the ulcer. It was their ancient healing that did the trick. Not the drugs of my culture. It was THEIR knowledge which changed my life. The drugs only led to gastroparesis... If only we respected their widsom.
Princessportent 3 years ago
I had the same problems with ulcers, but unlike you I haven't come across this matula tea, which I'm going to research as soon as I post this comment. I had to changed my diet, or suffer the consequences of excruciating pain.
Aetopus 3 years ago
Yes, ulcers suck majorly...don't they? No, after the tea that my mum got...it took a few weeks, but I was completely healed.
It kills the bacterium that causes ulcers (most ulcers, anyway) - h. pylori. But some ulcers are caused by other things (although these types are very rare). You should have a doctor confirm the presence of the bacterium, though. :) And yeah, the tea worked for me when nothing would (the medications and proton pump inhibitors cut down on symptoms; I still felt sick.)
Princessportent 3 years ago
Such an amazing true story. There is great value in bringing this dark time in Australia's history to light.
Aetopus 3 years ago
In the scene where the children are ripped away, the characters that play the grandmother and mother are actually crying for real, it is a moment that evokes real personal memories from their own families. The scene is a take.
the women remain in the position that you see in the film actually grieving. You cant get more real than that scence.
djahfari21 3 years ago
Princessportent, thank you very much for making an effort and posting it. I watched the movie while travelling in Australia last year. Found it hard to watch. I remember feeling shocked when I discovered "sorry" hadn't been uttered. So were my students. Glad that it finally was said. Pity I couldn't buy the CD anywhere before I left as I wanted to show it to my friends back home..
Managed to get the book at least:-)
pinkiwinkigirl 3 years ago
Yes...I can also say that I was shocked that it took so long for change to occur.
Sometimes I cannot believe how the compassionate are still mocked, generally, in this society. In this world. There are so many issues that seem so obvious...that need to be corrected...and whole societies still are caught in the tug of war between 'master' and 'slave' and it's all so debilitating for both sides! If the need to lord over another was extinguished, as a human feature, I think we'd REALLY evolve.
Princessportent 3 years ago
i've just seen the movie... one more proof that shows how the western culture "consumed" native cultures of the so called "new worlds" in the name of progress, science, religion etc etc...
it should be a lesson in schools for the young ones to learn and avoid making the horrible mistakes of the past generations...
thank you Princessportent...
Cangouro 3 years ago
:)
I agree. Ethical Philosophy should be brought into the schools when children are young. It doesn't have to be jargon-ladden, but it SHOULD be present. If children were taught to question their beliefs/ bias' and encouraged to relate to a situation from the perspective of another, we'd have an infinitely more beautiful and compassionate and rich world. It wouldn't be so spiritually impoverished. And it's not about NEEDING something more - just using the heart and mind that is bestowed.
Princessportent 3 years ago
How do you define "the most racist people on the face of the earth"?
It's a disgusting statement because it collides and it contradicts my very existence.
mrrad1 3 years ago
mrrad1 - I've deleted GrungePrincesses comment for that very reason. It's highly offensive.
tc,
Princessportent
Princessportent 3 years ago
I'd like to share my input into this. My grand mother was a part of the Stolen Generation. What happened was unforgiveable and hard to think about. The videos sad, not to mention hard to watch.
mrrad1 3 years ago
The formal apology made alot of Aboriginal, well at least the one's where I come from, happier, were touched and what was seen to be unforgiveable forgiveable. This recognition is something that has been longed for, for many years and has been achieved by saying sorry. I applaud. The actor, Everlyn Sampi, is a cousin of mine just to put that out there.
mrrad1 3 years ago
I love the video.
We're watching this in Australian Studies but I've seen it a few times before.
Though I believe think that the people who took the children away believe what they were doing was right, it doesn't change the fact that they tore families apart.
I believe we make mistakes in the past so we don't repeat them in the future and I hope that we don't.
I hope that people will move forward, not forget, and that we as Australians are able to build a new community.
Jessica
heavenlyhot 3 years ago
Don't get upset hockeyfan431. The way I see it, if people try to hurt you deliberately, they are not worth getting upset over. And if they AREN'T trying to hurt you, then it's mostly...miscommunication issues, right??
Although you are more than entitled to your anger.
Princessportent 3 years ago
While I agree that each person is responsible for his/her OWN actions, I don't think it's in any way fair to say that aboriginals are "the most racist." In arguing for that, you are generating more anger amongst two groups that already don't have a good history (as one was subjected, more or less to abuse and slavery at the hands of the other).
Princessportent 3 years ago
Aboriginals have GREAT reason for anger; those that actually were taken from their families are only naturally going to be more distrustful of other cultures now. This doesn't make them racist, imho.
But I very much agree with you...it's up to EACH person to treat each and every other person with openness and a lack of bias. Because we AREN'T our parents, or grandparents. We are more than our blood, our genetics.
Princessportent 3 years ago
That music is beautiful.
TsarObezyanka 3 years ago
I've always found this to be the most beautiful piece from the movie. I must have listened to it...several hundred times, minimally.
Princessportent 3 years ago
the idea isnt about revenge. your meant to learn from it, to create a better environment. even though it was wrong, disgustingly wrong, the people of the time thought it was right.
anyway cheers for the video, i got to study it for my hsc helped out heaps.
pixels16 3 years ago 3
Agreed...I just wish that more people would take what's happened in history to heart.
PianoChick36 3 years ago
I totally agree. Many DID see what they were doing as right. In so far as they did, and did not also commit the abuses that did occur in certain residental schools - then they seem less like these horrible people, and more like...very lost, very unseeing people.
Princessportent 3 years ago
i wotched dis yesturday so sad but so happy i cant believe it happened until 1970!!! im 13 and i am white but i completely disagree with wot they did
love2laugh111 3 years ago 2
You have such a compassionate soul, You are certainly wise beyond your years.
If there were more people like you around, the world would be a better place.
God bless your heart.
djahfari21 3 years ago
Wow. :) Thank you. :)
I think I always felt different, and I didn't fit in when little, and sometimes being on the outside can make you really...feel for others. Sometimes it's good not to have TOO easy a life. I think some pain can make people more compassionate. Too much can make them bitter and hard, too.
Princessportent 3 years ago
So sad!!
JosephineTauasa 3 years ago
could sum1 tell me the name of the song at 1 min 56 seconds plz weill be much appreciated this was my grandads fave film and he passed away so i would be very grate ful if u told me the track of 2 min onwards thank write back
sammyw13 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure the entire track is "Gracie's Recapture" by Peter Gabriel. It is a fantastic song. I remember that it played during the end credits of the movie, and during the disc menu of the DVD.
Iguana1500 3 years ago
Yes, the entire track is Gracie's Recapture - my favorite from the soundtrack. :)
Princessportent 3 years ago
thats so sad
lulupopxx 3 years ago
The reality was far more worst mates. I don't think Aborigines have been wiped off for ever. They would strike back as locals in South Africa.
starhub1 3 years ago
if u have seen the film u will relise the true horrors of wot went on when the chidren wre removed from there homes.And just because of the colour of there skin ??? anyway great slideshow and music heartbreaking to see that Gracie doesnt make it
lovelife1994LOL 3 years ago
The norwegian social workers, "barnevernet", are doing just the same to us, they classified parents as "not human" and then steel our children... Please, help us!
MonaLygre 3 years ago
Great movie. It shows many White Australians who didn't approve of the removal policy, but stood back and said nothing.
MondoBeno 3 years ago 2
I saw this movie while taking Aboriginal Studies at Macquarie University in Syndey. The music is wonderful and it brings back memories.
Thank you for posting it.
Iguana1500 3 years ago
I don't think that Neville had ill intent. He, like many before him, was blinded by arrogance and the belief that there is only one right way. When we live within walls and are too afraid to look beyond for the things we do not understand, we fail to reach the deeper understanding, we fail to understand the other point of view. In some way or another, we all suffer this. We did it then, we are doing it now, and we will repeat it tomorrow. Only those willing to embrace diversity can move beyond.
GumbyTheBorg 3 years ago 2
I tend to agree with you, Gumbytheborg. Several scenes in the show depict his...beliefs...shows that he DOES believe he is doing the right thing.
Princessportent 3 years ago
wow what u wrote really got me thinking..... ta x
lovelife1994LOL 3 years ago