Titles tagged with ‘outback’
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Across the Trans-continental Railway: From Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta (c1917)
This documentary details part of the building of the trans-continental railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
‘Tick’ Belrose, aka Mitzi Del Bra (Hugo Weaving), a Sydney drag artist, accepts an invitation from his ex-wife (Sarah Chadwick) to bring his stage show to the outback. ...
The Alice (2004)
‘Action and adventure meet magic and romance in Alice Springs’, say the publicity notes for this telemovie, and it’s not a lie. A disparate group of people are ...
Art From the Heart (1998)
The documentary looks at the way that Aboriginal art has been commercialised since the 1970s. Artists and galleries have prospered since Aboriginal art was marketed on a large ...
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 ...
Australia’s Land of Tomorrow (1962)
Australian Inland Mission (AIM) superintendent Reverend Fred McKay conducts his patrol through the north of Australia. Along the way he witnesses a prospering region where industry and agriculture ...
Australian Story – With This Ring (2005)
When Australian Story first recorded the life of this gutsy young couple, Gayle and Mac Shann were newly married and struggling to come to terms with the horrific ...
The Back of Beyond (1954)
Battling heat, dust, flood and sand, Royal Mail driver and everyman Tom Kruse completes the fortnightly run in his battered Leyland Badger, delivering mail, stores and supplies to ...
Backlash (1986)
Police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort a young Aboriginal woman to the NSW outback to stand trial. Kath (Lydia Miller) ...
The Barefoot Bushman: Dancing With Dingoes (1997)
The barefoot bushman, Rob Bredl, presents his view of Australian nature with an emphasis on the dingo. Rob examines the arrival of the dingo from Thailand and traces ...
Beyond the Furthest Fences (1947)
A silent documentary that shows scenes from a journey made by Australian Inland Mission patrolling minister, the Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge, through central Australia in 1947. He travels ...
A Big Country – The Prices (1979)
A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it.
A Big Country – The White Rose (1979)
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales.
Dingo (1991)
On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the tarmac after his ...
The Flying Doctor (1941)
Far from medical facilities on an outback station, a station worker is struck down with an attack of acute appendicitis. In a re-enactment of an actual event, the ...
Gone (2007)
A young British backpacker, Alex (Shaun Evans), en route to join his girlfriend in Byron Bay, meets a friendly American outside a Sydney hostel. They have a wild ...
The Hayseeds (1933)
In the middle of a bad drought, Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) and his large family host a wealthy city family, the Townleighs, when Mary Townleigh (Shirley Dale) gets ...
The Inlanders (1949)
A documentary by John Kingsford Smith made for the Australian Inland Mission. The Inlanders follows patrolling minister Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge on his 8,690 kilometre journey into Australia’s ...
Japanese Story (2003)
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious young Perth geologist, flies north to Port Hedland to babysit the son of a Japanese industrialist, on a private visit. Hiromitsu Tachibana ...
Last Mail from Birdsville: The Story of Tom Kruse (2000)
The documentary follows the last mail run of octogenarian Tom Kruse, as he drives his restored truck from Birdsville in Centralia to Adelaide in 1998. From 1936 Tom ...
Lucky Miles (2007)
An Indonesian fishing boat dumps six Cambodians and six Iraqis on the remote coast of northwest Australia, in 1990. Muluk (Sawung Jabo), the captain, tells them to climb ...
Mad Max 2 (1981)
After a disastrous war over oil, Max (Mel Gibson) has become a desert wanderer with few ties to the world. His family is dead; his only companion is ...
Modern Love (2006)
City businessman John (Mark Constable) inherits a remote farm from his uncle Tom (Don Barker), a recluse said to have committed suicide. With wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and ...
Nature of Australia – A Separate Creation (1989)
This program traces the rise of the marsupial from the primeval forests of ancient Gondwanaland to their presence in Australia today, culminating in the kangaroo.
No Worries (1993)
Matilda Bell (Amy Terelinck) is an independent 11 year old growing up on a sheep station in western NSW, during a severe drought. Many local farmers have already ...
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 ...
One Night the Moon (2001)
One Night the Moon is a film based on events that took place in 1932, about a young girl who goes missing on the night of a full ...
Opal Fever (2004)
Opal Fever is a four-part documentary series that explores the obsession with mining the precious stone opal. The series looks at the miners, retailers and consumers of opals. ...
Opal Mining Lightning Ridge (c1925)
This silent footage with intertitles from around 1925 shows scenes of the opal mining community of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales. It includes miners’ shanty houses, the ...
Shifting Sands – My Colour, Your Kind (1998)
A young albino Aboriginal girl (Melissa Middleton) escapes from a convent to return to her mother, her story unfolding in flashback during this journey.
Stateline – The Transcontinental Dream (2004)
Reporter Mark Bowling travels with the Ghan on its inaugural train journey from Adelaide to Darwin, arriving in its new destination at the Northern Territory on 3 February ...
Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
On an outback station in 1956, hard-drinking shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of ‘gun shearer’, the one with the highest tally. ...
Sweetie (1989)
Kay (Karen Colston) and Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) are sisters, although Kay wishes they weren’t. Kay is shy, superstitious and sexually repressed. Sweetie is loud, slovenly and quite possibly ...
Tim Storrier, ‘Lighting Fires’ (1993)
The documentary is a biography of Australian painter, Tim Storrier. It follows the artist as he goes to the outback to paint. He photographs subjects and creates live ...
We of the Never Never (1982)
In 1902, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor) and her new husband Aeneas (Arthur Dignam) arrive in the Northern Territory to take over management of Elsey Station, a huge ...
Wolf Creek (2005)
Three young backpackers buy a car in Broome, Western Australia, intending to drive across the top end to Cairns. Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips) is Australian; the two women, ...
