Wake in Fright
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may…
Skullduggery
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
They’re a Weird Mob
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…
Mutiny on the Bounty
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…
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
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…
The Sundowners
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….
Smiley Gets a Gun
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…
Walk Into Paradise
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
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…
The Desert Rats
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of…
Bitter Springs
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.
Eureka Stockade
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
The Overlanders
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,…
The Rats of Tobruk
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel’s forces.