You're going to hear a lot about Adam Goodes in the coming weeks.

That's a great thing because the Swans champion retired from the game at the end of 2105 with nothing like the acclaim he deserved. With two Brownlow medals, two premierships, the record for games by an Indigenous player and, as 2014 Australian of the year, Goodes should have been roundly celebrated as an AFL legend instead of being allowed to drift away after three seasons of booing by opposition fans.

Adam Goodes in The Australian Dream.

Five years on, the reappraisal of that controversial end to his career is underway with two documentaries about to have their world premieres – The Final Quarter at Sydney Film Festival and The Australian Dream at Melbourne International Film Festival.

And the first of those to have a media screening, Ian Darling's The Final Quarter, is about reignite all those passionate debates. Was the booing racist? Or was it just passionate opposition fans upset by some of Goodes' actions, including supposedly staging for free kicks, bullying a 13-year-old girl who yelled an ugly slur across the fence, performing a war dance at opposition fans and his comments about race in Australia?