Down and Under
Racism in Australia gets tracked from British colonization in 1788 through to present-day statistics that the film puts up front: an Aboriginal person dies in police custody roughly once a month, and inquiries into those deaths are conducted by the same police accused of causing them. A cited figure claims 75% of Aboriginal Australians experience racism daily, and the film uses viral phone footage of street attacks to show who else gets targeted, including refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and China, and even white immigrants without fluent English. The Stolen Generations policy gets particular attention, laid out as a deliberate assimilation program that separated Aboriginal children from their parents and erased family names. The film draws an explicit line from these Australian policies to internment camps and segregation elsewhere, arguing the pattern is not unique to one country. It stays focused on documentation and testimony rather than resolution, ending with the cycle of deaths and inquiries still unbroken.