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You can watch True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) for free on Kanopy.

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

This reimagined outlaw epic ditches traditional western tropes for a hallucinatory, folk-tale aesthetic that feels more like a fever dream than a biography. The stylized dialogue and surreal imagery transform a standard robbery tale into a strange, poetic myth about colonial oppression.

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