Tom Murray

Directing

Tom Murray

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Tom Murray is an Australian documentary writer, director and producer, and the founding director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University. His films have screened at international film festivals and been recognised across the film, television, radio and audio industries. His work is interdisciplinary, engaging with the history of colonialism, Indigenous culture and knowledge systems, environmental history, ethics and reciprocity, and inter-cultural storytelling. A recipient of the Max Crawford Medal, awarded to early career humanities scholars in Australia, he has also worked as a consultant to state film funding agencies and international media organisations acros…

Known for

Shock Room poster
6.6

Breaking open Stanley Milgram's infamous 'Obedience to Authority' experiments, Shock Room questions whether we're really programmed to obey.

Shock Room

2015

No artwork available
NR

On Mangaia, the oldest and most southerly island in the Cook Islands, Pwo Grand Master Navigator Peia Patai sails a recreated vaka moana using the non-instrument wayfinding he learned from stars, swells and ecological signs. Among ancient celestial maps painted in limestone caves and the reefs and gardens of the atoll, the voyage traces Ra'ui, the Polynesian practice of taking only what is needed so that the ecology survives for those who come after.

Vaka Moana: Ancestors of the Future

2026

Australia: The Wild Top End poster
7.8

Narrated by Indigenous elder Balang T E Lewis, this inspiring documentary will take you on an adventure to explore the culture and wildlife of Australia’s remote wild north. Far Northern Australia is a land of extremes, from bushfires to torrential floods. Explore the wildlife and meet the people in Australia’s wild top end, from the Kimberley coast through the mysterious Arnhem Land, and deep into the world’s oldest rainforest in Cape York.

Australia: The Wild Top End

2019

Love in Our Own Time poster
NR

Seven ordinary Australian families are followed through the beginnings and endings of life — the arrival of children and the approach of death. Their experiences trace how people in contemporary Australia meet birth, love and mortality, and the everyday moments that fill the space between.

Love in Our Own Time

2014

The Skin of Others poster
4.0

Douglas Grant (c. 1885–1951) was an Aboriginal man who became widely known in his own lifetime: an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier in the First World War, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe player who could hold a convincing Scottish accent. His path ran from Australia to Britain and Europe and back, crossing those of Henry Lawson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand along the way. Balang Tom E. Lewis retraces that life in reflections by turns thoughtful and playful, and through it the longer history of colonial Australia and its relationship with First Nations people.

The Skin of Others

2020

Dhakiyarr vs. the King poster
10.0

Seventy years after his controversial murder trial and subsequent disappearance, an Australian Aboriginal's descendants seek to restore what was denied him: his honor.

Dhakiyarr vs. the King

2004

Behind the camera

Shock Room poster
6.6

Breaking open Stanley Milgram's infamous 'Obedience to Authority' experiments, Shock Room questions whether we're really programmed to obey.

Shock Room

2015

No artwork available
NR

On Mangaia, the oldest and most southerly island in the Cook Islands, Pwo Grand Master Navigator Peia Patai sails a recreated vaka moana using the non-instrument wayfinding he learned from stars, swells and ecological signs. Among ancient celestial maps painted in limestone caves and the reefs and gardens of the atoll, the voyage traces Ra'ui, the Polynesian practice of taking only what is needed so that the ecology survives for those who come after.

Vaka Moana: Ancestors of the Future

2026

No artwork available
NR

On Mangaia, the oldest and most southerly island in the Cook Islands, Pwo Grand Master Navigator Peia Patai sails a recreated vaka moana using the non-instrument wayfinding he learned from stars, swells and ecological signs. Among ancient celestial maps painted in limestone caves and the reefs and gardens of the atoll, the voyage traces Ra'ui, the Polynesian practice of taking only what is needed so that the ecology survives for those who come after.

Vaka Moana: Ancestors of the Future

2026

No artwork available
NR

On Mangaia, the oldest and most southerly island in the Cook Islands, Pwo Grand Master Navigator Peia Patai sails a recreated vaka moana using the non-instrument wayfinding he learned from stars, swells and ecological signs. Among ancient celestial maps painted in limestone caves and the reefs and gardens of the atoll, the voyage traces Ra'ui, the Polynesian practice of taking only what is needed so that the ecology survives for those who come after.

Vaka Moana: Ancestors of the Future

2026

Australia: The Wild Top End poster
7.8

Narrated by Indigenous elder Balang T E Lewis, this inspiring documentary will take you on an adventure to explore the culture and wildlife of Australia’s remote wild north. Far Northern Australia is a land of extremes, from bushfires to torrential floods. Explore the wildlife and meet the people in Australia’s wild top end, from the Kimberley coast through the mysterious Arnhem Land, and deep into the world’s oldest rainforest in Cape York.

Australia: The Wild Top End

2019

Love in Our Own Time poster
NR

Seven ordinary Australian families are followed through the beginnings and endings of life — the arrival of children and the approach of death. Their experiences trace how people in contemporary Australia meet birth, love and mortality, and the everyday moments that fill the space between.

Love in Our Own Time

2014

Love in Our Own Time poster
NR

Seven ordinary Australian families are followed through the beginnings and endings of life — the arrival of children and the approach of death. Their experiences trace how people in contemporary Australia meet birth, love and mortality, and the everyday moments that fill the space between.

Love in Our Own Time

2014

Love in Our Own Time poster
NR

Seven ordinary Australian families are followed through the beginnings and endings of life — the arrival of children and the approach of death. Their experiences trace how people in contemporary Australia meet birth, love and mortality, and the everyday moments that fill the space between.

Love in Our Own Time

2014

The Skin of Others poster
4.0

Douglas Grant (c. 1885–1951) was an Aboriginal man who became widely known in his own lifetime: an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier in the First World War, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe player who could hold a convincing Scottish accent. His path ran from Australia to Britain and Europe and back, crossing those of Henry Lawson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand along the way. Balang Tom E. Lewis retraces that life in reflections by turns thoughtful and playful, and through it the longer history of colonial Australia and its relationship with First Nations people.

The Skin of Others

2020

The Skin of Others poster
4.0

Douglas Grant (c. 1885–1951) was an Aboriginal man who became widely known in his own lifetime: an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier in the First World War, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe player who could hold a convincing Scottish accent. His path ran from Australia to Britain and Europe and back, crossing those of Henry Lawson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand along the way. Balang Tom E. Lewis retraces that life in reflections by turns thoughtful and playful, and through it the longer history of colonial Australia and its relationship with First Nations people.

The Skin of Others

2020

The Skin of Others poster
4.0

Douglas Grant (c. 1885–1951) was an Aboriginal man who became widely known in his own lifetime: an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier in the First World War, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe player who could hold a convincing Scottish accent. His path ran from Australia to Britain and Europe and back, crossing those of Henry Lawson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand along the way. Balang Tom E. Lewis retraces that life in reflections by turns thoughtful and playful, and through it the longer history of colonial Australia and its relationship with First Nations people.

The Skin of Others

2020

Dhakiyarr vs. the King poster
10.0

Seventy years after his controversial murder trial and subsequent disappearance, an Australian Aboriginal's descendants seek to restore what was denied him: his honor.

Dhakiyarr vs. the King

2004

In My Father's Country poster
NR

In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia, a small community is fighting for its traditions and its future. Looking to the nearby mining towns and mission settlements the community Elders can see their culture in decline and abuse. This is the intimate story of one families' struggle to cope with the responsibilities of a richly complex traditional culture in a fast consuming 21st Century world.

In My Father's Country

2008

In My Father's Country poster
NR

In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia, a small community is fighting for its traditions and its future. Looking to the nearby mining towns and mission settlements the community Elders can see their culture in decline and abuse. This is the intimate story of one families' struggle to cope with the responsibilities of a richly complex traditional culture in a fast consuming 21st Century world.

In My Father's Country

2008