The purpose of these notes is to suggest some approaches to the documentary for teachers who plan to teach Frontier: Stories of White Australia’s Forgotten War as a text within the Victorian VCE English course. There are, of course, a variety of approaches to the documentary series, including examining it as a work of history. This article is designed specifically for the English curriculum, but may have material suited to History and Media Studies as well. Its overall purpose is to begin to develop appropriate vocabulary and techniques for the analysis of Frontier as a text. In doing so, it is hoped that students will learn to recognise the constructed nature of a documentary text; recognise and discuss expectations and conventions of the genre, and patterns and structures within the text; perceive sophisticated meanings; discuss the values, social perspectives and unstated views embodied in the text; and develop the skills needed to produce a sustained interpretation supported by detailed textual analysis.