Lionel Rose, Australia's first Aboriginal world champion boxing hero - the man behind the myth
Editing
Archival footage woven like a bruised tapestry.
Direction
Martin lets Rose's silences speak louder than his hooks.
Director
Eddie Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rose's 1968 bantamweight title made him the first Aboriginal Australian on a world stage — during a year when Indigenous people were still classified under flora and fauna in some states.
The documentary sat unfinished for years because Rose kept disappearing from contact; director Eddie Martin eventually found him living reclusively in rural Victoria, still training in his sixties.
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