Jack Charles

Jack Charles

Morte : 2022-09-13

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Jack Charles

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The Lake of Scars
Narrator
In a corner of regional Victoria exists a place of astounding natural beauty, archaeological significance and age-old culture. But the Indigenous scarred trees and artefacts found here are at risk. With the blessing of the local Dja Dja Wurrung People, white horticulturist Paul Haw has made it his mission to care for Lake Boort and its surrounds.
Ablaze
Self
A feature documentary about opera singer Tiriki Onus who finds a 70-year-old silent film believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal leader and filmmaker Bill Onus. As Tiriki travels across the continent and pieces together clues to the film’s origins, he discovers more about Bill, his fight for Aboriginal rights and the price he paid for speaking out.
Próxima Parada: Lar Doce Lar
Greg, the Head Frill Neck (voice)
Eles são perigosamente fofos! A caçada começa quando um grupo de animaizinhos letais (e um coala-celebridade chamado Pelúcio) escapa do parque onde vivem na Austrália e tentam voltar para seu lar.
A Verdadeira História de Ned Kelly
Waiter
A ascensão e a queda do rebelde australiano Ned Kelly, consagrado como o maior bush ranger da história do país. Durante a década de 1870, incentivado pelo foragido Harry Power e pela prisão de sua mãe, Kelly recrutou um montante de rebeldes para planejar uma rebelião lendária.
The Art of Incarceration
Self
Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary explores how art and culture can empower Australia's First Nations people to transcend their unjust cycles of imprisonment.
Peter Pan
Chief
Peter (Levi Miller) é um garoto de 12 anos que vive em um orfanato em Londres, no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Um dia, ele e várias crianças são sequestradas por piratas em um navio voador, que logo é perseguido por caças do exército britânico. O navio escapa e logo ruma para a Terra do Nunca, um lugar mágico e distante onde o capitão Barba Negra (Hugh Jackman) escraviza crianças e adultos para que encontrem pixum, uma pedra preciosa que concentra pó de fada. Em pleno garimpo, Peter conhece James Hook (Garreth Hedlund), que tem planos para fugir do local.
Black Chook
Black Ghost
They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.
The Agony of the Mind
Self
Our Agony Aunts and Uncles are back, and this time around they're sharing their mental wellness tips and techniques for overcoming stress and challenges.
The Darkside
Ken
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.
Yagan
Midgegooroo
When Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling established Western Australia's Swan River colony (later the city of Perth) in 1829, times were tough. Seed refused to grow, food was scarce, and the initially good relations between British settlers and local Indigenous Noongar people tragically spiraled out of control into a conflict over land and resources. Standing out during this period were the actions of a Noongar warrior named Yagan.
Mystery Road
Old Boy
Numa cidade do interior, Jay Swan, um detetive Cowboy Indígena regressa a casa para resolver o assassinato de uma menina indígena adolescente cujo corpo é encontrado numa estrada que é rota de camiões por fora da cidade. Jay é impedido tanto pela polícia local dominada por brancos, como pela comunidade indígena, incluindo a sua filha adolescente, que ele descubre estão ligados à menina assassinada.
The Last Supper
The Thin Man
Set ten minutes before Jesus arrives at The Last Supper, 13 men at lunch fueled by wine and emotion. Satirising Man's hedonism and greed, 'The Last Supper' explores race and religion whilst re-imagining two of history's greatest betrayals... three if you count reality television.
Bastardy
Himself
Provocative, funny and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the inspirational story of a self proclaimed Robin Hood of the streets. For Forty years and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack Charles has juggled a life of crime with another successful career- acting
We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
Aboriginal Elder
The story of five unique Australians who have been nominated for the Australian of the Year Award. Phil, a rescue hero who saved nine children in a jumping castle accident. Ricky, a Chinese physics genius and aspiring actor. Ja’mie, a charity-minded schoolgirl who sponsors 85 Sudanese children. Daniel and Nathan, hearing impaired teenage twin farm boys embarking on a world first eardrum transplant. And Pat, a disabled suburban housewife turned elite athlete.
Tom White
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
Blackfellas
Carey
Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.
Bedevil
Rick
Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years
O Canto de Jimmie Blacksmith
Harry Edwards
The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Dimboola: The Stage Play
Mutton
A recording of the Australian Performing Group's performance of their first professional production season of Jack Hibberd's play "Dimboola" staged at the Pram Factory in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.