Australia. Two decent crime movies got the third sequel. Two movies are:
Mystery Road (2013)
Goldstone (2016)
Basically, these two are a kind of australian westerns, a detective comes to solve a crime and it ends in gunsblazing where weapons solve more things they were supposed to. The work of camera is perfect, characters aren't bad at all, stories are a bit bland, but if you have time, watch 'em, they're good.
I said they got a third sequel and it's miniseries of 6 episodes, that's why it's in this thread. Miniseries kept the name of the first movie, I'm not quite sure why but that doesn't matter:
Mystery Road (2018)
Just as the movies, the story happens in australian bush. Ask Corwin for more details what's that "bush" about. But my, visuals are absolutely amazing. Mesmerizing. Even if there was no story, miniseries would be worth looking at just for shots of nature. Sure, there were stuff like that in movies already, but not as spectacular as here.
Another thing upped was the courage. Movies went mildly on reckoning with the past, but this time, there was no "misfire". Before watching this miniseries, the worldwide audience should at least know two things:
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/3-horrendous-anti-indigenous-laws
Aboriginals were not considered citizens of Australia until 1967, and some were regulated under Flora and Fauna Law. The federal constitution, written in 1900, explicitly stated that Aboriginals would not be counted in any state or federal census. Queensland was the last state in Australia to grant state voting rights to Aboriginals in 1965; Aboriginals in the Northern Territory were considered “wards of the state” and were not allowed to vote in federal elections unless they were ex-servicemen up until 1962. Voting and citizenship rights for Aboriginals were written into the constitution with a 1967 referendum, which also removed discriminatory references to Aboriginals from the Constitution and gave Parliament the power to make laws pertaining to Indigenous Peoples (previous to that, state governments had total law-making power over Aborigines). The referendum set a voting record, with 90.77 percent of the entire population voting in favor of it. Interestingly, the highest percentage of “no” votes were recorded in territories with the highest Aboriginal populations, suggesting that anti-Indigenous racism was still rampant in many areas of Australia (since the passage of the Race Discrimination Act in 1975, 10,5000 complaints have been filed with the government, with more than 3,500 of those coming from Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders). However, though voting is mandatory for all Australian citizens, voting was not made compulsory for Aborigines until 1983. Queensland has lagged behind in many Indigenous rights laws – Queensland Aborigines could be forced to live on reserves until 1971, and could not own their own property until 1975. In 1959, Aboriginals became eligible to receive pensions and maternity leave, but only if they were not “nomadic or primitive,” and often group payments were made to reserves or missions rather than individuals or communities. Though many of these discriminatory laws were changed in the 1960s and 1970s, others were being created – legislation created in the 1970s requires that the estate of an Aboriginal who dies without leaving a will should be automatically put in the hands of a public trustee, rather than granted to the next of kin as is the case with non-Aboriginals. The Law Reform Committee recommended that this law be changed in 2008, and the Department of Indigenous Affairs confirmed in 2012 that they are “considering it.” Also contentious is New South Wales’ Flora and Fauna Law under the National Parks and Wildlife Act. This law claims that the majority of Aboriginal artifacts are “property of the crown,” and claims jurisdiction over all Aboriginal heritage and culture. Aboriginals, understandably, object to their culture being regulated under an act meant to protect vegetation and wild animals. New South Wales is the only state in Australia not to have a stand-alone Aboriginal Heritage Act, and activists have been lobbying for one for the past thirty years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_deaths_in_custody
A 2018 investigation found that over half of the Indigenous people who died in custody since 2008 had not been found guilty
Mystery Road is not world shattering masterpiece, but it does at least try to document some of horrors from the past and some from present day.
It's trying to be, as much as possible, aussies' Longmire. And IMO it succeeded.
You don't have to watch the first two movies, but the miniseries?
Watch it before you die. Please, don't let this gem to become Australia's best kept secret.
For australians it's streaming on ABC site, it's also available on Amazon with some odd service, but plenty of worldwide channels are airing it (recently it appeared on BBC4 for example).