Phillip Noyce · 2002 · overland

Phillip Noyce's 2002 film, based on a true story. In 1931 three Aboriginal girls of the 'Stolen Generations' are taken from their family at Jigalong and sent to a distant settlement camp. Escaping, they walk fifteen hundred miles home across the Western Australian desert, following the rabbit-proof fence north for nine weeks with a tracker on their trail, guided by the fence line all the way back.

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   Moore River

   The government settlement north of Perth where the three half-Aboriginal sisters are interned after being seized from their family under the assimilation policy of the day.

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   The desert

   The vast, dry Western Australian interior the girls cross on foot after their escape, following the fence line north, evading the tracker sent to bring them back.

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   Jigalong

   Their remote home community in the Pilbara, reached after a fifteen-hundred-mile walk along the rabbit-proof fence - one of the great feats of endurance and homing instinct.