HSC English Area of Study: Belonging – Additional resources list.
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300 (MA)
A beautiful mind (M)
An angel at my table (M)
An officer and a gentleman (M)
As it is in Heaven (M)
Australia (M)
Babel (MA)
Band’s visit, The (M)
Bend it like Beckham (PG)
Beneath clouds (M)
Brokeback Mountain (M)
Children of men (MA)
Cider house rules, The (M)
Clueless (M)
Color purple, The (PG)
Cruel intentions (MA)
Cry freedom (PG)
Dead poets society (PG)
December boys (PG)
Donnie Darko (M)
E.T. the extra-terrestrial (PG)
Earth (MA)
Educating Rita
Edward Scissorhands (PG)
Snyder, Zack
Howard, Ron
Campion, Jane
Hackford, Taylor
Pollak, Kay
Luhrmann, Baz
Iñárritu, Alejandro González
Kolirin, Eran
Chadha, Gurinder
Sen, Ivan
Lee, Ang
Cuarón, Alfonso
Hallström, Lasse
Heckerling, Amy
Spielberg, Steven
Kumble, Roger
Attenborough, Richard
Weir, Peter
Hardy, Rod
Kelly, Richard
Speilberg, Steven
Mehta, Deepa
Gilbert, Lewis
Burton, Tim
USA, 2007
USA, 2001
1990
USA, 1981
Sweden, 2005
2008
2007
Israel, 2007
UK, 2002
2001
USA, 2005
USA, 2006
USA, 1998
USA, 1995
USA, 1985
USA, 1999
1987, UK
USA, 1989
UK, 2006
USA, 2004
USA, 1982
Ind/Can, 1998
UK, 1983
USA, 1990
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Australia unless
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Elephant man, The (M)
Far from heaven (M)
Fire (MA)
Freedom writers (M)
Fried green tomatoes (PG)
Gandhi (M)
Glory road (PG)
Grease (PG)
Happy feet (G)
Hotel Rwanda (M)
Howl’s moving castle (PG)
Ice age (G)
Into the wild (M)
Kite runner, The (M)
Leaving of Liverpool, The (M)
Life is beautiful (M)
Little Miss Sunshine (M)
Lynch, David
Haynes, Todd
Mehta, Deepa
LaGravenese, Richard
Avnet, Jon
Attenborough, Richard
Gartner, James
Kleiser, Randal
Miller, George
George, Terry
Miyazaki, Hayao
Wedge, Chris
Penn, Sean
Forster, Marc
Jenkins, Michael
Benigni, Roberto
Dayton, Jonathon
USA, 1980
USA, 2003
Ind/Can, 1996
USA, 2006
USA, 1992
UK/Ind, 1982
USA, 2006
USA, 1978
UK, 2006
USA, 2005
Japan, 2005
USA, 2002
USA, 2007
USA, 2007
UK, 2005
USA, 1997
USA, 2007
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Miss Potter (G)
Monsoon wedding (M)
Muriel’s wedding (M)
My big fat Greek wedding (G)
My brilliant career (G)
Nineteen eighty-four (M)
Not without my daughter (PG)
Of mice and men (M)
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (M)
One night the moon (M)
von Donnersmarck, Florian H.
Noonan, Chris
Nair, Mira
Hogan, Paul
Zwick, Joel
Armstrong, Gillian
Radford, Michael
Gilbert, Brian
Sinise, Gary
Forman, Milos
Perkins, Rachel
Ger, 2006
UK, 2007
USA, 2001
1994
USA, 2001
1979
UK, 1984
USA, 1990
USA, 1992
USA, 1975
2000
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Australia unless
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Oscar and Lucinda (M)
Pan’s labyrinth (MA)
Places in the heart (PG)
Pursuit of happyness, The (M)
Radiance (M)
Remember the Titans (PG)
Save the last dance 2 (M)
Saved! (M)
Secret of Roan Inish, The (G)
She’s the man (PG)
Shine (PG)
Slaughterhouse-five (M)
Snow falling on cedars (M)
Spirited away (PG)
Stranger than fiction (M)
Talented Mr Ripley, The (M)
Thelma & Louise (M)
To kill a mockingbird (PG)
To Sir, with love (PG)
Tracker, The (MA)
Transamerica (MA)
Visitor, The (M)
Waking Ned Devine (PG)
Water (M)
West side story (PG)
Whale rider (PG)
What’s eating Gilbert Grape? (PG)
Wit (M)
Yolngu boy (M)
Armstrong, Gillian
Del Toro, Guillermo
Benton, Robert
Muccino, Gabriele
Perkins, Rachel
Yakin, Boaz
Petrarca, David
Dannelly, Brian
Sayles, John
Fickman, Andy
Hicks, Scott
Hill, George Roy
Hicks, Scott
Miyazaki, Hayao
Forster, Marc
Minghella, Anthony
Scott, Ridley
Mulligan, Robert
Clavell, James
Schechter, Jeff
Tucker, Duncan
McCarthy, Tom
Jones, Kirk
Mehta, Deepa
Wise, Robert
Caro, Niki
Hallstrom, Lasse
Nichols, Mike
Johnson, Stephen
1997
Finland, 2006
USA, 1984
USA, 2007
1997
USA, 2000
USA, 2006
USA, 2005
USA, 1994
USA, 2006
1999
USA, 1972
USA, 1999
Jap, 2002
USA, 2006
USA, 1999
USA, 1991
USA, 1962
UK, 1967
Can, 2001
USA, 2005
USA, 2008
UK, 1998
Ind/Can, 2005
USA, 1961
NZ, 2002
USA, 1998
USA, 2001
2001
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Australia unless
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Documentaries
1960: skin deep
Frontline: a class divided
Four Corners: A deathly silence
A sense of place
Babakiueria
Band of brothers
Blue eyed
Boy who plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Boy who was turned into a girl, The
Boys don't dance
Choir of hard knocks
Compass: Coming of the light
Compass: A small town welcome
Cry from the heart: the stolen generation
Emily’s eyes
Frank & Daz take on the world!
Geisha girl
Jihad Sheilas
Mabo:life of an island man
Marking time
My brother Vinnie
My flesh and blood
My left foot: the story of Christy Brown
Operation Babylift
Out of our minds
Painting with light in a dark world
Paradise bent: boys will be girls in Samoa
Marzynski, Marian
Peters, William
McDermott, Quentin
Ferris, Marie
Featherstone, Don
Williams, Gareth
Verhaag, Bertram
Grabsky, Phil
BBC TV
McGowan, Nicki
Welch, Jonathon
Patrick, R. & Edmondson M.
Bare, Ili
Kendall, Jeni
Douglas–Henry, J.
Rymer, Judy
Conway, Darren
Gombac, Renata
Graham, Trevor
Nowlan, Cherie
McGregor, Steven
Karsh, Jonathan
Sheridan, Jim
Le, Dai
Carlin, David
Ettinger–Epsetin, S.
Croall, Heather
USA, 1999
USA, 1985
2006
2007
1980
UK, 2001
USA, 1996
UK , 2004
UK, 2000
2005
2007
2006
2008
1999
1999
2007
UK, 2005
2008
1997
2003
2007
USA,2003
UK, 1989
2005
2001
2003
1999
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Director
Publication
date
SCIS
Number
* Published in
Australia unless
otherwise noted.
Race for the beach
Refugee like me
Riot and revenge
Saying sorry: the day the nation cried
Three seconds from glory
Trading races
Erson, Alan
Travers, Carmel
Jackson, Liz
(Message Stick)
Goldie, David
Russell, David
2007
2002
2006
2008
2000
2002
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