Series
Women of the Sun
Drama
Follows the lives and struggles of four generations Australian Aboriginal women from the 1820s to the 1980s.
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Seasons & episodes
1Alinta the Flame - the 1820s5 Jul 1982 · 58mThe lives of the Nyari people are completely disrupted when two convicts are washed up on the beach of their tribal lands.
2Maydina the Shadow - the 1890s12 Jul 1982 · 58mMaydina and Biri escape from the seal hunters who enslaved them. Their intent is to escape back to their traditional lands, but they quickly learn that these lands have been settled and their people have now scattered.
3Nerida Anderson, 193919 Jul 1982 · 58mNerida is a young, educated indigenous woman who returns to the government mission where her family lives, after spending several years in the city. She is shocked by the conditions and attempts to motivate her people to improve them.
4Lo-Arna, 198126 Jul 1982 · 58mAnn Cutler is the 18-year-old adopted daughter of middle-class parents in an Australian country town. She has been told that she is French-Polynesian and that there is no record of her birth parents beyond knowledge of their nationality. The truth is that she is born of her adoptive father, Doug Cutler, and an Aboriginal woman called Alice Wilson, who lives locally.
Details
- First aired
- 5 Jul 1982
- Last aired
- 26 Jul 1982
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- SBS
- Episodes
- 4
- Votes
- 1 on TMDB
