How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
- Written by Laura Rademaker, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Centre for Deep History, Australian National University
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020).Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage FilmsThe Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission in Arnhem Land in the 1930s, blends stories (and languages) from Indigenous Nations across the region.
It is a fictionalised story, inspired, says director Stephen Maxwell Johnson, by...





