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- As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
- The riveting journey of coalition soldiers as they land unarmed into the heat of a 10 year civil war using only the weapons of Music, Maori Culture and Love to create peace.
- This is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade.
- Documents an indigenous people who fight against a multinational mining company (Panguna copper mine) and government forces (PNG). The guerrillas relay the belief that they fight to defend their independence and preserve the local environment on the island of Bougainville.
- Ophir tells the story of an extraordinary indigenous revolution for life, land and culture, leading up to the potential creation of the newest nation in the world, in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of a people for freedom, culture and sovereignty, the film sheds light on the biggest conflict of the Pacific since Second World War, revealing the visible and invisible chains of colonization and its enduring cycles of physical and psychological warfare.
- An island nation faces the reality of rising seas wiping them off the map.
- Newsreel extracts: A Nazi submarine is shown attacked / military recreation at Bougainville / Persian transport of goods to Soviet forces / Merrill's Marauders in Burma / Hollywood entertainers overseas
- The daily life, customs and traditions of the people of Bougainville Island filmed by Patrick O'Reilly, a Catholic priest, anthropologist and pioneer of Pacific studies.
- A documentary made in Australia about the war being waged against the people of Bougainville who do not want further exploitation of the natural resources of their country which has resulted in massive destruction of the environment and quality of life of the native population. The film shows the levels of brutality and political chicanery to which the established powers will go to maintain the production and profits of their capitalist enterprises.
- Mission Southland: How Bougainville Found Out About The Globe When in 1766 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville left Nantes in France on the expedition vessel "La Boudeuse", the mathematician and diplomat intended to be one of the first man to circumnavigate the earth. The fact that the earth was a sphere was not accepted everywhere yet. When Bougainville discovered Tahiti on the 5th of April 1768, he escaped death. And this changed his thinking radically.