Rabbit-Proof Fence (Rabbit-Proof Fence)
Directed by: Philip NoyceCast list: Everlyn Sampi, Kenneth Branagh
Country: Australia
Year: 2003
Genres: Drama /
Runtime: 93 min.
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In 1931, with the Aborigine Act in Australia, the Chief Protector of Aborigines in the State of Western Australia A.O. Neville had the power to relocate half-caste children from their families to educational centers to give the culture of the white man. When the fourteen year-old aboriginal girl Molly Craig is taken from her mother in Jigalong with her eight year-old sister Daisy Kadibill and their ten year-old cousin Gracie Fields to the distant Moore River Native Center, they run away trying to return to the tribe in the desert. These three girls are part of what is referred to today as the "Stolen Generations".
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Subjects: English language / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / children, children’s rights / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / anthropology, ethnography / family, family relationships / human rights / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
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Historical Context (text in Spanish)Documentary: The Stolen Generation of Australia (audio in Spanish)
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