Dreaming of Lords

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Dreaming of Lords
Directed by	Bob Ellis
Written by	Bob Ellis Ernie Dingo
Produced by	Mark Manion
Narrated by	Ernie Dingo
Production company	Contagion Films
Release date	1988 (1988)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Dreaming of Lords is a 1993 Australian documentary about the first cricket tour of an Australian team, fully made up of aboriginals.^[1]

References

↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p48

External links

Speech by Bob Hawke given at the launch of the film
Dreaming of Lords at Creative Spirits
Dreaming of Lords at Screen Australia

v t e Works of Bob Ellis
Theatre	The Legend of King O'Malley (1970) Duke of Edinburgh Assassinated or The Vindication of Henry Parkes (1971) The Francis James Dossier (1973) The James Dossier (1975) Down Under (1975) A Very Good Year (1980) A Local Man (2004)
Screenplays	Newsfront (1978) Fatty Finn (1980) Maybe This Time (1980) Goodbye Paradise (1983) Man of Flowers (1983) The Winds of Jarrah (1983) My First Wife (1984) Top Kid (1985) (TV) The Paper Boy (1985) (TV) Cactus (1986) Bullseye (1987) Perhaps Love (1987) (TV) True Believers (1988) (TV) Ebbtide (1994) Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998) Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal (2008)
Director	Unfinished Business (1985) Dreaming of Lords (1988) (TV) Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988) The Nostradamus Kid (1993) Run Rabbit Run (2007)

v t e Films and television series about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Awards	Deadly Awards National Dreamtime Awards
Children	Banduk Bobtales Barrumbi Kids Grace Beside Me Little J & Big Cuz Double Trouble Thalu Yamba's Playtime
Comedy	8MMM Aboriginal Radio BabaKiueria Basically Black Black Comedy Stone Bros.
Documentary	art + soul Australia Daze Black Chicks Talking Blood Brothers Buried Country Bush Mechanics The Change at Groote Contact Couldn't Be Fairer Dreaming of Lords Fire Talker First Australians First Contact I, the Aboriginal Jandamarra's War Kanyini The Last Tasmanian The Last Trackers of the Outback Lousy Little Sixpence Mabo: Life of an Island Man My Survival as an Aboriginal Namatjira the Painter Our Generation Primitive Peoples Protected The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back Sharing the Dream The Talgai Skull The Tall Man Utopia Welcome to Australia Yajilarra
Drama	Australian Rules Backlash Bedevil Beneath Clouds Black and White Blackfellas (Day of the Dog) Boney The Cake Man The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Charlie's Country The Circuit Cleverman Come Out Fighting Dark Place Deadly Dead Heart The Djarn Djarns The Fringe Dwellers The Gods of Wheat Street Goldstone Here I Am Harry's War Heartland High Ground Jasper Jones Jedda Jindalee Lady The Last Wave The Life of Harry Dare Mabo Mad Bastards Manganinnie Mystery Road No Way to Forget Rabbit-Proof Fence Radiance RAN Remote Area Nurse Ready for This Redfern Now Rose Against the Odds Samson and Delilah Satellite Boy The Secret Daughter The Secret River September Short Changed Spear Sweet Country Ten Canoes The Tracker Toomelah Tudawali Walkabout The Warriors Where the Green Ants Dream Women of the Sun Wrong Side of the Road Yolngu Boy
Musical	Black River Bran Nue Dae One Night the Moon The Sapphires
News	Imparja National News Living Black Message Stick NITV News
Sport	The Barefoot Rugby League Show The Marngrook Footy Show Over the Black Dot
Related	Blackfella Films Imparja Indigenous Community Television NITV

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