Women of the Sun (1981)
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Australia
- Length
- 1 season, 4 episodes
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A miniseries showing the experiences of four Aboriginal women in Australia from the 1820s to the 1980s. Each episode focuses on a different woman's life in a specific time period. It was the first series to cover this subject.
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What happens
Women of the Sun is an Australian historical drama television miniseries that was broadcast on SBS and later ABC. The series, co-written by Sonia Borg and Hyllus Maris, was composed of four 60-minute episodes to portray the lives of four Aboriginal women in Australian society from the 1820s to the 1980s. It was the first series that dealt with such subject matter, and later received several awards including two Awgies and five Penguin Awards following its release. It also won the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award and the Banff Grand Prix in 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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