Rabbit-Proof Fence

After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia, ...more

Based on Doris Pilkington's novel, -Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, this odyssey about three young aboriginal girls who escape a governmental internment camp and trek across the outback to return home, is touching, if a little near-sighted. Bringing to the fore the shocking government policy that Australia had in place from the 1930s through the 1970s, whereby "half-caste" children (of mixed aboriginal and white descent) were removed from their families to be trained as domestic servants, Phillip ...more

Release Date: 04/15/2003