Jack Charles
Also Known As: Uncle Jack Charles
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: September 05, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 13, 2022
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Back to the Outback
Overview: Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Life After Man
Overview: An infectious disease causing the dead to rise again has wiped out most of humanity. On a small outback farm in Australia, a young girl must protect her sister from more than just the dead.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
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The Lake of Scars
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-26
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Blackfellas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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The Art of Incarceration
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-28
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The Agony of the Mind
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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The Future of Everything (Unlimited Ducks)
Overview: In this quirky and clever short a team of scientists in 2025 discover proof that the universe is a simulation. It doesn't take long to chaos to ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-11
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Pan
Overview: Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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Dimboola: The Stage Play
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-22
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Bedevil
Overview: 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
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Tom White
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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Bastardy
Overview: 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
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-03
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The Darkside
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-27
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Mystery Road
Overview: A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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Black Chook
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Ablaze
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-26
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Overview: Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
Genres: Crime Drama Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Yagan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-13
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We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-27
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The Last Supper
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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