Watch The Last Trackers of the Outback (2007) Online Free
For millenniums, Aborigines used tracking to survive. Their ancient skills now help police capture murderers and save people's lives. Will modern technology replace an art based on the intimate bond between man and nature?
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Ian Ayres, Deanne Beecheno, Ella Cretenden, Teddy Jangala Egan, Vanessa Escalante, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Dennis Kreusler, Alan Jupurrula McMillan, Mary Jane Morton, George Musgrave, Lemiah Japangardo Woods
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