Titles tagged with ‘sailing’

5 titles - sorted by title / by year

Across Bass Strait (1974)

A record of the 1974 Bass Strait Yacht Race, featuring the action on board a yacht from start to finish, 30 hours later. The documentary covers the excitement ...

Dead Calm (1989)

Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed ...

Peach’s Explorers – The Prison Walls (1984)

The story of the Blue Mountains’ barrier to the expansion of the fledgling colony of NSW and its eventual crossing by Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson ...

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 ...

Wings to Victory (1984)

A film celebrating the win by 12-metre yacht, Australia II, at Rhode Island USA. The Australian yacht beat the American entry, Victory. It was the first time that ...

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