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Turtle Beach
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Turtle Beach

Mar. 19, 1992

Turtle Beach

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She ...
Trouble in Paradise
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Trouble in Paradise

May. 16, 1989

Trouble in Paradise

Following her husband Arthur’s mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a ...
Ground Zero
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Ground Zero

Oct. 01, 1987

Ground Zero

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginal people to be exposed ...
Flesh + Blood
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Flesh + Blood

Aug. 30, 1985

Flesh + Blood

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who stiffs them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble’s son. As the plague ...
Burke & Wills
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Burke & Wills

Oct. 30, 1985

Burke & Wills

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. ...
Bad Blood
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Bad Blood

Nov. 12, 1982

Bad Blood

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
The Earthling
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The Earthling

Jul. 24, 1980

The Earthling

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes ...
Breaker Morant
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Breaker Morant

Jun. 11, 1980

Breaker Morant

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used ...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and ...
Mad Dog Morgan
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Mad Dog Morgan

Jul. 09, 1976

Mad Dog Morgan

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Sunday Too Far Away
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Sunday Too Far Away

Jun. 01, 1975

Sunday Too Far Away

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and ‘Black Arthur’ do ...
Jock Petersen
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Jock Petersen

Jan. 01, 1974

Jock Petersen

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives ...
Wake in Fright
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Wake in Fright

Jul. 21, 1971

Wake in Fright

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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Nov. 26, 2023

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The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian ...
Runt
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Runt

Sep. 19, 2024

Runt

In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets ...
Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing
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Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing

A definitive history of surfing in Australia, Bombora tells the story of Australian beach culture through our surfing champions, writers, ...
Yolngu Boy
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Yolngu Boy

Mar. 22, 2001

Yolngu Boy

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey ...
A Woman Called Golda
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A Woman Called Golda

Apr. 26, 1982

A Woman Called Golda

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.