Frontline Films

This film interviews Australia's leading military and defence analysts about the grave consequences that the Albanese government's AUKUS arrangement commits Australia to, including possible nuclear war with China as the proxy for the United States. Those interviewed include Hugh White, Richard Ta...

Hugh Lunn was Reuter's Indonesian correspondent in 1969. He refused to leave West Papua despite orders from the London Head Office and stayed to report on the UN Act of Free Choice - a referendum which would decide the fate of 800,000 West Papuans.

An account of the Vietnam war as seen through the camera of Australian journalist Neil Davis. Vietnam was a television war, a war said to have been lost in the lounge rooms of middle America and not on the battlefield.

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he waits for a life saving liver transplant.

A personal story of one’s man’s tour of duty in Vietnam and his obsessive search to locate 42 former enemy soldiers Killed in Action so that their bodies can be returned to their families and their spirits put to rest.

Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last 40 years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice Academy Award nominated Bradbury was easily able to slip into gear and start filming in eight US cities in the ...

Blowin’ in the Wind examines the secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its weaponry on Australian soil. It looks at the impact of recycled uranium weapons and the far-reaching physical and moral effects on every Australian.

This is a documentary that had to be made! Twice Academy award nominee and five times AFI winner David Bradbury’s, A HARD RAIN, explores the ‘other side’ of the nuclear debate.

The struggle of the Mirrar people against the Jabiluka Uranium mine.
"Jabiluka is about us, blackfellas, whitefellas together...and our belief in the future of our nation."

In 1997, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) pushed to open a new uranium mine surrounded by the World Heritage listed K...

A portrait of Raul Castells, a modern day Argentinian Robin Hood. This is a warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change the world and a frightening insight into the politics of poverty.

In 1978 the revolutionary Sandinista movement came to government after 43 years of organised resistance and the death of 50,000 Nicaraguans. This film follows charismatic guerilla leader Tomas Borge opposing CIA attempts to overthrow the Sandinistas.

For most of his working life, controversial Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett chose to report from the “other side”. His unorthodox views and activities caused him to be labelled a traitor by many.

A portrait of a brutal military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest.

A man on a big red trike smites an attack helicopter with a mattock and puts the chopper on trial.

Bradbury produced, filmed and co-directed with Richard Mordaunt was about the Byron Shire community coming together to halt inappropriate development.

It tracked the struggle over four years of the community to stop developers, including Club Med, making Byron shire into another Gold Coast.

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Four years in the making – a cast of thousands starring the people of Byron shire. More familiar faces than a Centrelink queue.

Examines how the political and economic struggle in Central America is expressed through the vibrant and passionate music of the people south of the border, from Mexico to Managua.

Finished in 1997, a gutsy cinema verite look at the battle in the frontlines of the forests of northern NSW between the loggers and so-called ‘feral’ environmentalists.

The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter were inappropriate for dispossessed, semi-tribal Aborigines.

A film that expresses the passionate vitality of the Cuban people and their willingness to embrace life and “get on with it” despite the challenges facing the island nation.