AUSTRALIA
Captain James Cook (1987) -- 1770 voyage discovers east coast of Australia
Against the Wind (1978) -- TV mini-series about the life of a transported convict in the colony of New South Wales, Australia
Botany Bay (1953) -- in 1787 prisoners are shipped from Newgate Jail to a new penal colony in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia
X Eureka Stockade ( Massacre Hill) (1949) -- Australians battle the government during the 1854 miners' revolt
X Heritage (1935/I) – disappointing overview of 150 years of Australian history
X Mary Bryant -- late 18th century Australia, poverty-ridden Mary is arrested & sent to the new penal colony in Australia where she faces many problems
OUTLAWS
Burke & Wills (1987) -- a shocking story of the 1860-1861 expedition across Australia from south to north, Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpenteria at Flinders River
Ned Kelly (2003) -- Australian gang of bank robbers active in the 1870s
Ned Kelly (1970) -- ditto
Mad Dog Morgan (1976) -- Australian outlaw active around the 1880s Australian gold rush
Labor Struggles:
X Comrades (1986) – British farm laborers imprisoned in Australia in 1834 for forming an unauthorized union
X Strikebound (1983) -- worker struggle in the Gippsland coalfields during 1930’s Australia
WWI:
Gallipoli (1981) -- British, New Zealander and Australian troops against Turkey (Ottoman Empire), 1915
1915 (1982) -- two Australian country boys vie for the same girl, but their world changes when they land in Gallipoli
X The Battle of Gallipoli (Tell England) (1931) -- Battle of Gallipoli 1915
ANZACs: the War Down Under (1985) -- Australian-New Zealand Army Corps head for disaster in Gallipoli and then on to France and the battles of Ypres and Amiens, among others
X The Battle of Broken Hill (1981) -- prelude to Gallipoli; a mass killing near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia on January 1, 1915 carried out by Muslims to support the Ottoman Empire
Beneath Hill 60 (2010) -- Australian miners are used to dig tunnels under the German lines to plant explosives, June 7, 1917
Lighthorsemen (1987) -- charge on Beersheba, events after Gallipoli for the Australian troops (October 31, 1917)
Forty Thousand Horsemen (1941) -- Australian cavalry at the Battle of Beersheba (October 31, 1917)
Time Between WWI and WWII:
X A Shadow on the Sun -- in 1936 Beryl Clutterbuck became the first person to fly west across the Atlantic solo
X Between Wars (1974) -- a doctor faces important socio-political challenges in Australia and elsewhere between WWI & WWII
WWII:
Fighting Rats of Tobruk (1944) -- one of Australia's greatest wartime legends
Australia (2008) -- love story set against background of racism and Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia on February 19, 1942
Kokoda (2006) -- Australian troops fight the Japanese during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign
X Weekly's War (1984) -- story of Australian experience of WWII thru experience of those who worked on the publication of the Australian Women’s Weekly
Overlanders (1946) -- fear of Japanese invasion in Australia causes cattlemen to push their herds overland halfway across the country.
Prisoners of the Sun (1990) -- Japanese internment of Australian soldiers
Sisters of War (2010) -- Australian nurses becomes POWs when Japan attacks Rabaul
X Blood Oath (1990) -- the Ambon tribunal tried 91 Japanese soldiers for war crimes against Australian prisoners
X Tenko -- Australian women interned in a Japanese POW (TV series)
X The Dunera Boys -- imprisonment of German nationals in Australia in WWII (among them were Jewish refugees)
Fight for Civil Rights
Newsfront (1978) -- follows two rivalries against the background of key political events of the 1950s in Australia
Black and White (2002) -- police virtually frame an aboriginal man leading to great controversy over the role of race in Australia
X 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
Tracker (2002) -- a racist policeman goes way too far in his reactions to Aborigines
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
Beneath Clouds (2002) -- racial experience between Lena (mixed-caste) & Vaughn (a Murri boy)
X Come out Fighting (1973) -- aborigine torn between black and white worlds
Manganinnie (1980) -- child's view of near-genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines
Tudawali (1987) -- life of the first Australian Aboriginal actor Robert Tudawali, (a.k.a., Bobby Wilson)
X 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
The Dismissal (1983) -- first Labor Prime Minister in 23 years who made many liberal changes (dismissed by the Governor-General in 1975)
X Exits (1980) -- effect of the Whitlam sacking on a group of Melbournites
X Apostasy: A Twice Told Tale in Black Red White (1978) -- dealing with the aftermath of the Whitlam sacking & other key events
Vietnam War:
The Odd Angry Shot (1979) -- Australians fight in the Vietnam War
X Vietnam -- Australian film about the Vietnam war from Australian perspective
X A Street to Die (1985) -- an Australian veteran of the Vietnam War has difficulties back home (including the effects of Agent Orange)
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