Rabbit-Proof Fence came out twenty years ago, and it remains deserving of praise for how well it has aged. With its careful depiction of both Indigenous Australians and white colonizers, this movie ...

RABBIT-PROOF Fence is a powerful film based on the true story of three aboriginal girls' fight against the racist forced assimilation policies of Australian government. This film's director, Phillip ...

Rabbit-Proof Fence, the latest film by Australian director Philip Noyce, brings to a wider audience one of the many tragic and, until recently, untold stories of the “stolen generation”—the estimated ...

In 1931, on the orders of the "devil", three young "half-caste" Aboriginal girls were spirited away from their home at Jigalong in north-west Western Australia to the Moore River Native Settlement ...

Jon Beaupre discusses the new film, “Rabbit Proof Fence,” about 3 Aboriginal children who are kidnapped from their mothers by the Australian government to be raised in government schools. Shortly ...

Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence is back in the news for its representation of the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families. It is a familiar criticism – it was first raised at the ...

The phrase “rabbit-proof fence” evokes vivid reactions in Australians, who know the tough settlers of the vast continent’s dry interior were fully capable of building thousand-mile barriers against ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

An incredible but true Depression-era story about a 1,200 mile trek by three little aboriginal girls across rugged Aussie terrain is brought to the screen in "Rabbit-Proof Fence," which marks director ...

Three young Aborigine girls, whisked away by the Australian government to be trained as housekeepers for white families, escape from internment and flee across the desert. Surprisingly poetic film, ...

Continuing his retreat from thrillers and action films (see also The Quiet American), Australian director Phillip Noyce uses beautiful imagery to reopen an ugly chapter from his country's past that ...