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Main Title: High Ground
Author: Johnson, Stephen, (Filmmaker), film director.
Baker, Simon, 1969-
Nayinggul, Jacob Junior
Thompson, Jack, 1940-
Imprint: Madman Entertainment, 2021
Collation: 12 cm. sound, colour ; 1 DVD-video (94 min.) :
Subject: First Nations Australians
First Nations Australians - - Massacres and frontier violence
Trackers
Snipers
World War, 1914-1918
Australian movies and television programs
Notes:
1919. WWI sniper Travis, now a policeman in the vast and remote landscape of Northern Australia, loses control of an operation resulting in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. With his superior officer's intent on burying the truth, Travis leaves before being forced back twelve years later in the hunt for outlaw Baywara, an Aboriginal warrior attacking new-settlers. Recruiting Gutjuk as his Tracker, Travis realises this young mission-raised Indigenous man is the only known massacre survivor. When the truths of Travis' past actions are suddenly revealed, it is he who becomes the hunted...

Originally released as a motion picture in 2020. Directed by Stephen Johnson.

Rating: MA15+.

In English, Rirratjingu and Gunwinggu. [CC] English captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired). DVDs 81124995010002381 Alma Collection]
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