AUSTRALIA

Against the Wind (1978)  -- TV mini-series about the life of a transported convict in the colony of New South Wales, Australia

Ned Kelly (2003)   --  Australian gang of bank robbers

Ned Kelly (1970)  --  ditto

Gallipoli (1981) --  British, New Zealander and Australian troops against Turkey (Ottoman Empire), 1915

Light Horsemen (1987)  --  charge on Beersheba, events after Gallipoli for the Australian troops

Forty Thousand Horsemen (1941)  --  Australian cavalry at the Battle of Beersheba

Rats of Tobruk (1944)  --  one of Australia's greatest wartime legends

Desert Rats (1953) -- Tobruk seen from Australian side

Prisoners of the Sun (1990)  --  Japanese internment of Australian soldiers

Overlanders (1946)  --  fear of Japanese invasion in Australia causes cattlemen to push their herds overland halfway across the country.

The Odd Angry Shot (1979)  --  Australians fight in the Vietnam War

CIVIL RIGHTS --    AUSTRALIA

Jedda (1955) --  conflict arises when an Aboriginal girl is separated from her culture

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)  --  aborigine follows the white rules but no matter what he does he can't get ahead

We of the Never Never (1982) --   Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback 

Walkabout  (1971) --  a British boy and girl are stranded in the outback and form a relationship with a young Aborigine

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)  --  3 aborigine girls break away from their assimilation school to head back home

Wake In Fright (1971)  --  British teacher at isolated school with menacing locals

Romper Stomper (1993)  --  Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese

Australian Rules (2002)  --  racism in the local football team