Molly Craig
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Jan 31, 2003 · Rabbit-Proof Fence: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil. In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
- (30K)
- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Phillip Noyce
- 2003-01-31
The rabbit-proof fence in 2005. The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story. Tells the true story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families in 1931 to...
- (145)
- Phillip Noyce
- PG
- Everlyn Sampi
A film based on a true story of three Aboriginal girls who escaped from a government camp in 1931 and walked across the Outback to their home. They were pursued by a white official and a tracker along the rabbit-proof fence, a barrier to keep rabbits out of the farms.
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian book by Doris Pilkington, published in 1996. Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an Indigenous Australian family's experiences as members of the Stolen Generation —the forced removal of mixed-race children from their families during the early 20th century.
- Doris Pilkington
- 1996
181M subscribers. Subscribed. 486. At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig...
Dec 25, 2002 · A film based on a true story of three aboriginal girls who escape from a government school and walk 1,500 miles across the outback. Roger Ebert praises the film's beauty, harrowing and heartbreaking scenes, and the final revelation of the historical injustice.
