The Dream and the Dreaming (2003)
January 1, 2003Documentary0h 55m
An unlikely alliance between the German missionaries and the Aboriginal People of central Australia
Overview
For over thirty thousand years, the Desert People of Central Australia had walked their lands, their life governed by ancient and immutable laws laid down by the totemic ancestors and their Dreamings. In 1877 the German Lutherans arrived. Their dream of a 'mission field' in the very heart of the Australian continent put them at the epicentre of a massive clash of cultures. As the pastoral frontier, engulfed the Arrarnta homelands and threatened their existence, the Mission lease of 1,000 square miles was to become not so much a beachhead of Christianity but a place of sanctuary.
Videos
Similar Movies

Logos & LiteracyMarch 9, 2023

Midnight Oil: The Hardest LineJuly 4, 2024

The Ornament of the WorldNovember 19, 2019

Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist ChurchJanuary 1, 1987

Too Many Captain CooksJanuary 1, 1989

Left BehindJanuary 1, 1994

The Bowraville MurdersSeptember 2, 2021

Jesus CampSeptember 15, 2006
Intervention: Stories From the InsideJune 21, 2009

The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. LukeJanuary 1, 1979

The Happy IslandMarch 10, 1958

Young Mob Questioning TreatyOctober 12, 2019

Knots: A Forced Marriage StoryNovember 12, 2020

Desert Metal DreamingMay 8, 2021

Corpus Christi: Playing with RedemptionNovember 10, 2013

Bad FaithJanuary 10, 2024

The Case for ChristSeptember 11, 2007

My Survival as an AboriginalJuly 10, 1979
Teen ExorcistsSeptember 12, 2013

America's Hate PreachersNovember 21, 2016