List of Australian history films

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This is a List of films about Australian history.

Prior to European settlement

  • Ten Canoes (2007)

Early European settlement

Convicts

  • For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
  • Against the Wind (1978) (mini series)

Gold Rush era

  • Eureka Stockade (1948)
  • Eureka Stockade (1984) (mini-series)

Bushranger era

  • The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
  • Captain Thunderbolt (1953)
  • various versions of Robbery Under Arms - ones made in 1957
  • The Proposition (2005)

Up to and around Federation

  • Wills and Burke (1985)
  • Burke and Wills (1985)
  • The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
  • Oscar and Lucinda (2000)

Boer War

  • 'Breaker' Morant (1980)

World War I

Gallipoli Campaign

Palestinian Campaign

  • Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)
  • The Lighthorsemen (1987)

Other theatres

  • How we Beat the Emden (1915)

World War II

Australia

  • The Overlanders (1946)
  • Australia (2008)

African Campaign

  • The Rats of Tobruk (1944) - with final sequences in New Guinea

Pacific War

  • Attack Force Z (1981)
  • Kokoda (2006)

Vietnam War