Deborah Mailman
Also Known As: Deborah Jane Mailman, Deborah Mailmen, 데보라 메일맨, Дебора Мейлман
Biography: Deborah Jane Mailman, AM (born 14 July 1972) is an Aboriginal Australian television and film actress, and singer. She was the first Aboriginal actress to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and has gone on to win four more both in television and film. The awards are now known as the AACTA Awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
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Lucky Miles
Overview: It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-19
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Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
Overview: When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City online, Combat Wombat and Sweetie must return to save the day and kick some wom-butt!
Genres: Action Comedy Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-29
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The New Boy
Overview: In 1940s Australia, a 9-year-old aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, and his presence disturbs its delicately balanced world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-06
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The Sapphires
Overview: It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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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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Jack Irish: Dead Point
Overview: Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-13
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Looking Black
Overview: Looking Black explores the impact of Indigenous storytelling at the ABC, and how it has created deep and honest conversations about the experience of First Nations journalists, storytellers, and presenters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-05
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Scarygirl
Overview: As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Paper Planes
Overview: Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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Runt
Overview: In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London in order to save their family's farm from drought and misery.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Mabo
Overview: The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-10
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Play School: Nursery Rhymes
Overview: For over 30 years, Play School has been entertaining and teaching thousands of young Australians with its innovative and creative program style. Encouraging participation through a variety of interactive activities, Play School has without a doubt become an integral part of growing up. Presented by well-loved Play School hosts such as Noni Hazlehurst, Justine Clarke, Deborah Mailman and Rhys Muldoon, this special 100-minute DVD is jam-packed with over 30 favourite nursery rhymes, games to play, four segments on things to make and do, and nine animations including "Im a Little Teapot" and "This Little Piggy". Plus, the DVD contains four lovely stories and is also subtitled for the hearing impaired. Considered to be the most successful regular television program for pre-school children in the country, Play School is sure to be adored by a whole new generation of pre-schoolers. If there's a preschooler in your household, this is one DVD you won't want to miss!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-03
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Dear Claudia
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Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-25
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Overview: In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-04
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Blinky Bill the Movie
Overview: Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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Oddball
Overview: An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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Radiance
Overview: After the death of their mother, three estranged sisters return to their childhood home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-10
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Black Chicks Talking
Overview: Performer and writer Leah Purcell talks with five dynamic Indigenous women - Rosanna Angus, Kathryn Hay, Deborah Mailman, Cilla Malone and Tammy Williams - about what it means to be Aboriginal in Australia today. In a series of individual interviews and at one lively dinner party, the women share their experiences and opinions with extraordinary candour. The result is a passionate and challenging exploration of black identity and a celebration of five very different lives.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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A Few Less Men
Overview: Travel plans for three men in ill-fitting wedding tuxedos goes horribly wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Three Summers
Overview: Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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H Is for Happiness
Overview: A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Redfern Now: Promise Me
Overview: Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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Bran Nue Dae
Overview: In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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2067
Overview: A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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The Monkey's Mask
Overview: A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-10
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Combat Wombat
Overview: Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she begrudgingly saves a rookie superhero sugar glider from certain doom.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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The Archive Project
Overview: In the context of Australia's cold war a 'hidden history' of Melbourne's Realist film movement (1945-1959) is explored through the first person account of a filmmaker of another generation, speaking to the 'indy-media' movement of the present day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-16
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Mental
Overview: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Kangaroo
Overview: Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community - an endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-08-28
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The Graduate From Sudan
Overview: Victoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her biggest struggle yet has been re-starting life in the 'lucky country' with three children, an absent husband and mounting bills.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-27
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The Third Note
Overview: A blind woman and her neighbour discover a common bond after battling each other with sound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Total Control
Overview: Alex Irving, an Indigenous woman, gets media attention after her heroic action. Her life then changes when the prime minister recruits her as a senator.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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Wolfram: A Sequel to Sweet Country
Overview: Four years after the events of “Sweet Country” and revolving around David Tranter’s Alyawarra family history, three irrepressible kids who escape from their cruel white masters and embark on a journey across the sweet country of central Australia to try and find a safe home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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