Tom Zubrycki Movies

  • 1976
    The Painters and Dockers Strike

    The Painters and Dockers Strike

    The Painters and Dockers Strike

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    A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of...

    The Painters and Dockers Strike
  • 2002
    Gulpilil: One Red Blood

    Gulpilil: One Red Blood

    Gulpilil: One Red Blood

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    An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

    Gulpilil: One Red Blood
  • 2020
    The Weather Diaries

    The Weather Diaries

    The Weather Diaries

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    The flying foxes that soar across Sydney each evening face many challenges: impacted by heatwaves, evicted from urban parklands, struggling to...

    The Weather Diaries
  • 2023
    Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

    Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

    Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

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    ‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...

    Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
  • 2017
    Fair Game

    Fair Game

    Fair Game

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    Heritier Lumumba, formerly known as Harry O'Brien, was in the middle of his best season of AFL when his club president, Eddie McGuire, made a racist...

    Fair Game
  • 1974
    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

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    A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about...

    We Have To Live With It
  • 2012
    Big Boss

    Big Boss

    Big Boss

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    The story of 95-year-old Aboriginal elder Laurie Baymarrwangga and her work to maintain the language and cultural traditions of the Yan-nhangu people...

    Big Boss
  • 2005
    Vietnam Symphony

    Vietnam Symphony

    Vietnam Symphony

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    In 1965 during the Vietnam War, students and teachers from the National Conservatory of Music in Hanoi were forced to flee to a small village in the...

    Vietnam Symphony
  • 2019
    Gardens of Stone

    Gardens of Stone

    Gardens of Stone

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    Gardens of Stone is a short documentary which tells a story of the efforts of traditional owners, bushwalkers and scientists to save a landscape of...

    Gardens of Stone
  • 2017
    Hope Road

    Hope Road

    Hope Road

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    A refugee from the Sudanese civil war, Zacharia (one of the ‘Lost Boys' of Sudan) lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He desperately...

    Hope Road
  • 2013
    The Secret Safari

    The Secret Safari

    The Secret Safari

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    The Secret Safari tells the story of one of the most audacious military operations in the armed fight against apartheid in South Africa. A...

    The Secret Safari
  • 2021
    My Rembetika Blues

    My Rembetika Blues

    My Rembetika Blues

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    My Rembetika Blues is a documentary film about love, life and Greek Music. Film maker M.Zournazi takes us on a musical odyssey into the heart and...

    My Rembetika Blues
  • 1996
    Billal

    Billal

    Billal

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    The Eter family live on a state housing estate in a suburb comprising mainly Anglo-Australian families. One night a fight breaks out involving the...

    Billal
  • 1984
    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike

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    Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The...

    Kemira: Diary of a Strike
  • 1989
    Strangers in Paradise

    Strangers in Paradise

    Strangers in Paradise

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    On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’...

    Strangers in Paradise
  • 1991
    Amongst Equals

    Amongst Equals

    Amongst Equals

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    Zubrycki’s controversial, provocative and rarely screened documentary about the Australian trade-union movement was originally commissioned by...

    Amongst Equals
  • 1990
    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

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    Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream – an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia’s North based around the...

    Lord of the Bush
  • 1987
    Friends & Enemies

    Friends & Enemies

    Friends & Enemies

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    One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the...

    Friends & Enemies