History Bites Back - Citizenship (7-Day Rental)

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS RESIDING IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. ANY ORDERS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT ARE PLACED FROM OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WILL BE CANCELLED AND REFUNDED.

PLEASE NOTE: If paying via purchase order, your 7-day rental period will begin when we approve your order. (Approvals are usually processed regularly during trading hours, but please allow up to two business days.) If paying up-front via credit card or PayPal, you will have access to stream the file in a matter of minutes, and your 7-day rental period will begin straight away.

You will receive an email (separate to your tax invoice) with a link to watch this video once your payment is received (or when we approve your purchase order).

Please note: This video is an excerpt from the feature length film, focusing on the topic of citizenship.

History Bites Back is the antidote to the boring, faceless, and overly sincere documentaries that often populate Indigenous issues. It’s comical, self-aware, and not afraid to launch a rocket into taboo issues.

Our continent has over a hundred thousand years of black history but when the whitefellas began to build their country on top of Aboriginal mob's countries, they believed that the Aboriginal population would die out. Luckily they were wrong, but ever since then the whitefellas haven’t really known what to do with the blackfellas, and the blackfellas haven’t been able to get rid of the whitefellas. Now there’s other fellas; the biggest mob of fellas from all over the world sharing this place called Australia.

Still, our schools concentrate on the last 250 odd years of colonisation and most of that through a white colonial lens. So in the age of modern technology, unlimited information and the World Wide Web, Aboriginal people still put up with a boatload of ignorance and misconceptions from our fellow Australians. From the creators of 8MMM Aboriginal Radio and Occupation: Native and continuing in the tradition of films like We Don’t Need a Map to tackle the hard issues with comedy and humour, History Bites Back is a one hour, presenter-led documentary designed for a modern audience to be segmented into bite-sized episodes for additional streaming options.

Classification: MA (Mature Accompanied)

Running Time: 15 minutes

The streaming options for the full feature length version of History Bites Back can be found on our store here.

ATOM has also produced a study guide for History Bites Back. This study guide is available for download here.