Rolf de Heer talks about being invited by David Gulpilil to his country to make Ten Canoes (2006).

In postwar Australia, the milling of our nation’s prized hardwood timbers was a rapidly growing industry.

Environmentalists put Tasmania on the world's Christmas map by lighting up what is believed to be the world's tallest Christmas tree in the Styx Valley.

The O’Riordan boys are now grown into young men.

Rolf de Heer oversees the construction of swamp canoes that will be used in the film Ten Canoes (2006). Summary by Romaine Moreton.

Against a backdrop of images of the Ramingining community, director Rolf de Heer talks about the unexpected problems in casting Ten Canoes (2006).

Two men complete chopping around the base of a large tree trunk with hand-held axes. The tree falls to the ground.

A dead kangaroo sits on the ground between Camphoo and Crook Hat. The elder hooks the stick under the sinew of the kangaroo, and turns it to remove the long tendon.

The two elders with their spears straightened and smoothed, make holes in the ends with a stone knife for the woomera.

Elders Crook Hat and Camphoo are walking through the bush searching for the right tree to make spears. They tell us that the old people used to cut down the Acacia tree to make spears.