Australian history movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant australian history movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, independent film, rough and period drama films and TV shows about / with australian history, family relations, society, friendship, husband wife relationship, australian outback, death, aborigine, biopic and friend plots mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres shot in Australia, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australian history: Kokoda (2010), Burke & Wills (1985), The Secret River (2015), Faraway Downs (2023), Gallipoli (2015), Charlie's Country (2013), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), High Ground (2020), The Dish (2000), Silver City (1984).

List of australian history movies

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 8.0
 24
Kokoda (2010)
Genre: War
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of the brutal World War II military campaign fought between Australia and Japan in the green hell of the mountains of Papua New Guinea. Told from both the Japanese and Australian perspectives the documentary also explores the impact ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: japanese army, australian history, world war two, japanese man, wartime life, japanese history, japanese military, japanese soldier, war, soldier, world war, military
Place: papua new guinea, australia
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 6.3
 279
Burke & Wills (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, stylized ...
Plot: aborigine, desert, camel, australian history, maze, rescue attempt, british empire, outback, journey, sandstorm, countdown, journalist ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1860s, victorian era, 1850s
Place: australia, melbourne, england
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The Secret River (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: love affair, social differences, society, misfit, love and romance, australian aboriginal, colony, convict, lgbt, lgbtq, australian history, river ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: australia
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Faraway Downs (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.
Style: period piece, epic, period drama
Plot: world war two, ranch, male nudity, murder, boy, drowning, love, female protagonist, little boy, horse, male female relationship, world war ...
Time: year 1941, year 1940, 20th century, 1940s, year 1939 ...
Place: australia
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 7.9
 2K
Gallipoli (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: military, world war one, war, military life, family relations, battles, soldier, danger, battle zone, great war, graphic violence, violent content ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: australia, turkey, gallipoli, ottoman empire
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Charlie's Country (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style: semi autobiographical, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: racism, culture clash, introspection, society, against the rules, elderly, social misfits, escapades, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, educational ...
Plot: social worker, deportation, child abuse, against the odds, fighting the system, uncover truth, injustice, life is a bitch, state affairs, society, rebellion, family reunited ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, australia, europe, adelaide south australia ...
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 6.5
 2K
High Ground (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, bounty hunter, australian outback, racial slur, uncle nephew relationship, aborigine, family conflict, family relations, wildlife, saving a life, dysfunctional family, teamwork ...
Time: 1930s, year 1919, 20th century, 1910s, year 1931
Place: australia
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 7.2
 17K
The Dish (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, suspense, factual ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: nasa, moon landing, moon, space travel, humanity, friendship, social relations, human spirit, ambition, hopes, underdog, space ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 2000, year 1969
Place: australia, new south wales
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 6.4
 101
Silver City (1984)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: immigrant, unfaithful husband, world war two, migration, fall in love, unfaithfulness, love, husband wife conflict, adultery, father son relationship, humanism, prejudice ...
Time: post world war two, year 1962, 1940s, 60s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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 6.6
 3K
I Am Woman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of ...
Style: touching, feel good, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Plot: feminism, misogyny, female empowerment, feminist, music, love, biopic, women, woman, female musician, musician, music industry ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: australia, sydney australia, los angeles
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True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising ...
Style: psychological, bleak, tense, cult classic, art house ...
Plot: raped woman, chase, criminal, fight, gang, criminal gang, murder, police officer, revenge, death, true crime, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: australia, united kingdom, oceania
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 7.3
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Don't Tell (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, independent film
Plot: lawyer, pedophile, investigative reporter, justice, trust, friendship, child molestation, struggle, cover up, child abuse, truth, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1991, year 2001 ...
Place: australia
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Against the Wind (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Mary Mulvane, an 18 year old Irish girl, is transported to New South Wales for seven years for doing little else than protecting her own property. She must endure the horror of transport to Australia, and years of anxiety as a convict. Mary, her ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: sailing, courage, captain, pirate, coming of age, politics, hopes, society, state affairs, master and servant, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 1790s, 1810s, 1800s
Place: australia, new south wales, ireland
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 6.5
 63
Tudawali (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tells the story of Robert Tudawali who starred in the first ever Australian technicolour feature film, "Jedda". Station hand, actor and then Aboriginal activist, Tudawali died in 1967 at the age of 38 in tragic circumstances. Includes ...
Style: independent film
Plot: nude photography, indigenous people, alcoholism, family relations, australian history, death, love, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, friend, friendship, husband wife relationship ...
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 7.3
 3K
The Tracker (2002)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, fanatic, outback, racism, murder, australian outback, expedition, injustice, vigilantism, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
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 4.3
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Wills & Burke (1985)
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.
Style: mythical, spoof, parody
Plot: explorer, camel, australian outback, theatre play, starvation, correspondence, australian history, urinal
Time: 19th century
Place: australia
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 5.1
 1K
Ned Kelly (1970)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century ...
Style: social, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: manhunt, aborigine, outlaw, rock, hippie, heroes, prison, frontier town, bank robber, society, life is a bitch, folk hero ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: australia, new south wales, ireland
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Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Friday night he's too tired. Saturday night too drunk.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, independent film, homoerotic
Plot: strike, australian outback, drug, exodus, male objectification, nudity, beer, workplace, ambition, unfulfillment, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1950s, year 1975, 50s, year 1956
Place: australia, south australia
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 6.4
 28K
Ned Kelly (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, UK, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style: romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: folk hero, biopic, injustice, gang, bank robbery, wilderness, resistance, lawlessness, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: australia, oceania, new south wales
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 7.8
 14K
Breaker Morant (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the ...
Style: political, tense, factual, witty, intense ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, politics, legal, war, military, murder, court, military life, tragedy, world politics, soldier ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, year 1980, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: south africa, africa, australia, south australia
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