The 2006 movie Apocalypto, directed by Mel Gibson is similar to what’s going on in The Secret River. Apocalypto shows the culture and lives of the Mayan people, we are shown how the live and how they going about their everyday, similar to how the Aboriginals would have had their own culture and way of living.
At the end of Apocalypto we observe the first stages of the colonization of the ‘new world.’ The Spanish arrive on their ships to take over the land, the movie ends at this point but we know that the Spanish came and decimated the population, destroyed the land and eventually left little of the Mayan culture.

The Secret River tells of how the British came in their ships and took over the land, came into conflict with the natives and would eventually go on to leave little of the Aboriginal culture.