Adam Goodes documentary will be donated to every school and sporting club in Australia

A new film on Adam Goodes will be distributed to every school in the country, and AFL figures face the prospect of being named and shamed as the confronting documentary revisits the ugly final chapter of the player’s career and failings around the game.

Update: AFL figures face the prospect of being named and shamed to the next generation, with a new film on Adam Goodes to be distributed to every school in the country.

The confronting and powerful documentary, called The Final Quarter, revisits the ugly final chapter of Goodes’ AFL career and lays bare the failings of many around the game by vividly packaging footage and audio archives from the time.

In a significant move, the film will form part of a school curriculum to be tailored for both primary and secondary students later this year.

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The film itself, along with accompanying school resources and study guides, will be donated to every school in the country as well as all registered sporting clubs in Australia.

The material associated with the film will be appropriated for all age groups.

It’s felt the sorry story holds some valuable lessons about racism in modern Australia. Not only for teenagers but for young children as well.

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan yesterday lauded the documentary as “a great thing for a lot of Australians to see”, as the AFL looks to learn lessons from the past.

A confronting documentary about Adam Goodes will be donated to schools. Picture: Phil Hillyard

The Daily Telegraph understands that one key figure in the documentary, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, has already been given an advanced screening of the film, while AFL club chief executives saw a private viewing of the highly sensitive production on Tuesday.

The film will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival early next month.

McLachlan admitted last weekend that he regrets not calling out sinister commentary that surrounded Goodes’s performing of a tribal dance at an indigenous round match in 2015.

Adam Goodes celebrates scoring against Carlton at the SCG in 2015. Picture: Phil Hillyard

The Goodes saga, which included routine booing at grounds around the country, was arguably the most unfortunate episode in the game’s recent history. The AFL and individuals within the game might be nervous about how certain attitudes and inaction from the time is portrayed in the documentary.

Goodes was ultimately driven towards retirement from his playing career after growing worn down and embittered by his treatment.

Adam Goodes celebrates booting another goal for the Swans. Picture. Phil Hillyard

The film that will end up in classrooms nationwide will examine the responses to the booing controversy and the incident where a young female Collingwood fan racially abused Goodes, as well as McGuire’s infamous “King Kong” radio gaffe and Goodes’ being named Australian of the Year in 2014.

It will be up to individual schools how they wish to incorporate the film into their curriculum when it’s distributed to them later this year.

Award-winning film maker Ian Darling had his film The Oasis, a documentary about homelessness, distributed to every school in the country 10 years ago to be used as part of the curriculum.

Darling has a new film, called The Oasis: Ten Years On, which will also be donated to schools.

The fact the Goodes documentary will be made available to every school and sporting club in Australia is unprecedented when it comes to material involving an athlete or sporting codes.