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Headstart for Omar

United States, 1975
film

Omar was a boy when he fled with his parents from the family orange grove near Jaffa and joined 750,000 Palastinian Arab refugees streaming out of the new Sta..

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Pearlers

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Weevils mean business

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Fremantle cray fishers

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[The White continent]

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The Boy who came in from the cold

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Triumphant tour of Queen Elizabeth

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Don't be let down

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High and wild

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The Nature of paradise

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The Burnie story

Australia, 1958
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The Parachute workers

Australia, JUN 2010
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