Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane…
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means…
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to…
The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others – all so he can earn a new gun from…
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family–Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean–are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm….
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned ‘Shark-Eye’ Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major…
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is…
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and ’60s…. and…
It’s the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a “scorched earth” policy. Rather than kill all their cattle,…
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the “Wackiest Ship in the Navy” – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don’t know a jib…