Dreaming of Lords (1988)

Directed by

Bob Ellis

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film covers a 1988 cricket tour to England by an all Aboriginal Australian team. It also looks back at a similar tour from 1868.

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What happens

Dreaming of Lords is a 1988 Australian documentary about the May 1988 cricket tour of an Australian team, fully made up of Aboriginal Australians. The team, captained by John McGuire, visited England to mark the Australian Bicentenary and it called back to the teams visit in 1868 which this documentary also discussed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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