All titles in the ‘Travel & Adventure’ genre
31 titles - sorted by title / by year
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An Airman Remembers (1964)
Sir Gordon Taylor, one of the great aviation pioneers of Australia, presents this documentary. He delivers his story about the history of Australian aviation in the manner of ...
Australia (1934)
Semi-professional filmmaker Gordon Donkin, accompanied by his wife, travelled more than 25,000 kilometres over 18 months filming throughout Australia. The resulting documentary presents a comprehensive and realistic picture ...
Australian Walkabout (1958)
In this program the Chauvels, on a filmmaking safari of Australia, are travelling through the Northern Territory. They camp outside the small town of Katherine with their filmmaking ...
Big Hair Woman (1996)
Actress and comedienne Mary Coustas plays her most famous character, Effie, as she tours around Papua New Guinea. This docu-comedy is a sort of tongue-in-cheek travelogue. Effie gives ...
Black and Dusty (2005)
A documentary about the Indigenous participants of the 2005 Tattersalls Finke Desert Race.
‘Cannibal Tours’ (1987)
Using an observational style without commentary, the film follows tourists as they visit the Sepik River region in New Guinea. The film shows the tourists’ reactions in interviews ...
The Colony (2005)
A six part ‘living history’ series, in which four families and several single people – chosen to match the social fabric of the 1800s as convicts, political exiles, ...
Cradle of Creation (1940)
A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, ...
The Dance of the Eyes (c1940)
The Dance of the Eyes is one of a series of travelogues made for screening in the first half of a cinema program in the 1940s and 50s. ...
Dick Smith Explorer (1983)
Australian electronics businessman Dick Smith was the first person to fly solo around the world in a helicopter in 1982. The voyage is around the world, travelling east, ...
Endurance (1933)
The documentary footage taken by Frank Hurley during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton on a ship called Endurance in 1914–16 is bookended with a simple plot ...
Follow the Sun (1938)
The beauty of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is promoted in this travelogue filmed and directed by adventurous cameraman Frank Hurley. It begins inside a home at wintertime where ...
Home of the Blizzard (1913)
Home of the Blizzard documents part of the treacherous 600 mile 1911–1914 expedition to the Magnetic South Pole lead by Sir Douglas Mawson. Filmed between December 1911 and ...
The Ice Capped Jungle (1993)
The documentary covers a hiking trip to the mountains in a remote area of Irian Jaya. The party consists of an expedition leader, a mountain climber, a biologist, ...
Jack Thompson Down Under – Episode 3 (1987)
This magazine-style show presents aspects of Australian life culled from footage shot over the years by the ABC for their groundbreaking television documentary series A Big Country (1992), ...
Jewel of the Pacific (1932)
Lord Howe Island is the subject of this short travelogue made by Frank Hurley during a camera tour of the island in 1932. It shows the island’s geographical ...
Mid-East (1945)
Frank Hurley takes us on a journey to the Middle East and North Africa at the close of the Second World War. He describes aspects of traditional life, ...
Northern Safari (1956)
The film records a six-month journey by car, in 1955, from Perth to the Northern Territory and back, via Western Australia. Keith F Adams, his wife Audrey and ...
Peach’s Australia – Darling River (1976)
The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South ...
Peach’s Australia – Flinders Ranges (1976)
Bill Peach takes us on a folksy amble through the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. As he reveals the extraordinary beauty of this arid range he tells us ...
Peach’s Explorers – East to West (1984)
Edward John Eyre and his loyal companion Wylie, an Indigenous Australian, completed an epic journey across the terrible sand dunes of the Nullarbor Plain from South Australia to ...
Peach’s Explorers – South to North (1984)
Inter-colony rivalry between South Australia and Victoria drove a race to the north of the continent. The race resulted in the terrible deaths of the leaders of the ...
Peach’s Explorers – The Secret of the Rivers: Captain Charles Sturt (1984)
Like so many Australian explorers of the early 19th century, Captain Charles Sturt believed there must be an inland waterway in the heart of Australia to explain why ...
The Rocks: Sydney, Australia (1983)
This sponsored documentary traces the beginning of The Rocks in Sydney Cove to its present redevelopment as a tourist precinct. A young female tourist appears throughout the film ...
The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)
The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a ...
Snow… Down Under (1982)
Three friends ski on Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain. On the way they encounter bad weather and also have some fun. Intercut with this, the history of skiing ...
Sydney on Show (c1940)
A documentary about Sydney’s progress as a modern city that shows the city’s streets, public buildings and annual events, including the Royal Easter Show.
Through the Centre (1940)
Made by Herschells Films for the Shell Company of Australia, Through the Centre follows a Shell expedition to map a tourist route from Perth, through northern Western Australia ...
Track Record: The Story of Australia’s Railways - Tethered to the World (1991)
This is one episode from a four-part series that looks at the history of the railway network in Australia. This episode outlines the surviving tourist railways of Australia. ...
Travelogue of Eastern States (c1929)
This travelogue, made around 1929, shows the major cities of eastern Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the new national capital, Canberra.
Treasures of Katoomba (1936)
A treasure hunt awarding £500 at Katoomba provides the narrative bookend for this short dramatised film promoting tourism in the Blue Mountains region. Made by Frank Hurley for ...
