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- StarsElliott GouldLisa HarrowPatrick BerginAn IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
- StarsJohn WatersSteve JacobsRosey JonesA nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The robbers track her to the outback, and are determined to let nothing--and no one--get in the way of them retrieving their loot.
- StarsVictoria LongleyChristoph WaltzJohn HargreavesInitially set during the late 19th century when the privileged Elizabeth Patterson elopes with German immigrant Stefan Mueller. The pair start their own vineyard but later world war one threatens to tear apart their lives.
- StarsSigrid ThorntonJohn WatersDarius PerkinsOrphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
- StarsJohn WatersNikki CoghillParker StevensonThe sequel follows on with the same main characters, but with actress Nikki Coghill replacing Sigrid Thornton in the leading role.
- StarsBen MendelsohnJacqueline McKenzieMartin SacksThe lives of three families in the 1960s.
- StarsLisa HarrowTushka BergenMarshall NapierIn 1915 Australia, German prisoners of war, as well as Aussies of German heritage, are kept in camps. This creates many animosities toward the authorities, but in this account the camp is very relaxed in its discipline... enough that one of its prisoners, a violinist, is able to fall in love with one of the local Australian women.
- StarsAndrew ClarkePaul HoganJon BlakeThe lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the ANZACs. Fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, then on the Western Front for the remainder of WWI, it's the story of the hardships, camaraderie and casualties of war.
- StarsNicole KidmanDenholm ElliottHugo WeavingNicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott star in a 1989 miniseries about a young woman in a Thai prison for carrying her boyfriend's heroin.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJulie ChristieHugo WeavingJohn PolsonOn 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of heroin, a crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death. Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the hangman's rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
- StarsGary SweetJacqueline McKenzieMarcus GrahamFairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
- StarsWilliam PetersenKaren SillasCharles Martin SmithMysterious things happen at the coast of Graves Point: An empty boat lies at the shore, divers vanish. The sea biologist Dr. Talley thinks he knows the solution of the mystery: In the depth there is a gigantic squid.
- StarsHugo WeavingLesley ManvillePamela RabeEllie and Jack Shannon start a jewellery business in Burma, which is renowned for its rubies but is also one of the corners of the infamous heroin 'Golden Triangle'. Things turn sinister when one of their biggest customers, Samira Nazib, reveals that drug-trafficking is the true nature of their business. The Shannons spy on her and her partner for the Australian Federal Police.
- StarsRichard RoxburghTony MartinSteve BastoniSet in 1980s Sydney, this acclaimed mini-series tells the story of the relationship between corrupt Detective Roger Rogerson and one of Australia's most infamous criminals Neddy Smith.
- DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJane MenelausCarmen DuncanGary DayA woman returns home to Australia after living in New York for nine years and plots to take over the family company.
- StarsHugo WeavingGary SweetJim HoltDramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
- StarsPeter KowitzJoy SmithersPenne Hackforth-JonesA Sydney architect suffering from a mid life crisis tries to put his life back together.
- StarsKenneth BranaghSigrid ThorntonSteve BisleyIn the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia.
- StarsBrenda FrickerSandy GoreJosephine ByrnesDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
- StarsKeith MichellJohn GreggErich HallhuberDuring Captain James Cook's first voyage, in 1770, he discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony.
- StarsCaroline GoodallMartin ShawPhilip QuastCassidy is a 1989 mini series based on the novel by Morris West. It was based on the life of Charles Parnell Cassidy, a fictitious premier of New South Wales, Australia.
- StarsJohn WoodLorraine BaylyNicholas HammondThe story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
- StarsBob PeckLinda CropperGary SweetThe incident in the late 1980's at Tianamen Square in Beijing provides the backdrop for this drama. Dr Will Flint (Bob Peck) is in China as a Oncology consultant at a medical college, dealing with his recent family traumas whilst also attempting to track down his old mentor, Professor Hsu. Will meets and befriends Jin Juan (Lily Chen), a translator that helps him with his search for the Professor. Will is helped by ex-patriates Monica (Linda Cropper) and Larry (Gary Sweet), and together they become part of the students fight for democracy, leading to the event of June 1989 that shocked the world.
- StarsLisa HarrowKerry ArmstrongRebecca GibneyThe three proprietors of a beauty salon located in a lavish Sydney hotel find their futures looking uncertain as American troops gain the upper hand against Nazi forces in the winning days of WWII.
- StarsMichael CraigKen GoodletKevin MilesThe sequel to Three Men of the City where Sir William's position as chairman is under siege
- StarsAlan David LeeDennis MillerTracy MannIn August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.
- StarsChris HaywoodNicholas HammondTracy MannDrama serial based on the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Tracy on an area of Darwin on 24th December 1974.
- StarsGary BuseyJohnny DelgadoRoy AlvarezHusband-and-wife journalists watch events leading to the overthrow of the Marcos government in 1986 Philippines.
- DirectorCatherine MillarStarsAnthony HigginsMel MartinJerome EhlersBiographical dramatization of the tempestuous marriage of actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
- DirectorTim BurstallStarsKaarin FairfaxPeter CarrollGeneviève PicotIn rural Australia, a young girl is bullied and isolated, but receives support from a caring teacher.
- StarsHugo WeavingVictoria LongleySteve Jacobs"Dirtwater Dynasty" is the story of embittered rivalry, triumph and despair. The life of Richard Eastwick is told in a story spanning three generations and eight decades. Born in the London slums in 1878, he comes to Australia at age 20, with nothing but a handful of courage and a dream. He acquires land, marries and raises a family, wins loyal friends and makes bitter enemies, and builds a land and cattle ranching empire. Both world wars and the economic depression take their toll on his family. But his dream to create a dynasty gives him a reason to continue.
- StarsMax PhippsJohn StantonJohn MeillonThe drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
- StarsJoseph SpanoBob HoskinsJoseph FürstAt WWII's start, the British arrested Germans in the UK, including Jewish refugees and assimilated citizens. This film depicts a group sent to an Australian POW camp aboard the Dunera.
- StarsPenne Hackforth-JonesBrian DeaconJoe RitchieThe story of an English family emigrating to Australia.
- StarsRebecca RiggHenk JohannesAlfred BellThis two episode TV Mini Series is based on the story of Emma Eliza Coe, who in the second half of the nineteenth century she was known as the "Queen of the South Seas". Being the daughter of Samoan princess and Jonas Coe, the first American consul in Samoa, she inherited a large fortune. She maintained intimate relationships with key personalities Europe and America. Despite the "wild" character she could to win over people, showing great talent and practical skills. The story of Emma takes place in the wild and primitive New Guinea, in San Francisco in 1860, in the White House, in the palace of the Emperor Wilhelm in Berlin and in the luxurious Monte Carlo. Fascinating adventure, wild passions, lust for power, political intrigues, but also love.
- StarsBryan BrownBill HunterCarol BurnsA miniseries on the Eureka Rebellion in Australia back in 1854
- StarsSigrid ThorntonBrenda AddieDon BarkerTwo people from different backgrounds escaping their own past and finding a new life in post World War 2 Australia, can their pasts be left behind? Can the war be forgotten?
- StarsTodd BoyceMelissa DockerOllie HallIn 1938, an Englishman emigrates to Australia and becomes a cane-cutter. Sisters Kate and Dusty fall for him.
- CreatorMiranda DownesStarsPaul BertramTodd BoyceGosia DobrowolskaContinuing the dramatic Australian saga set in the North Queensland cane fields, Fields of Fire Series 2 picks up in 1947, a time of growth, prosperity and adjustment to post-war living.
- CreatorMiranda DownesStarsGosia DobrowolskaMichele FawdonOllie HallThe final chapter of the scorching historical saga set in Australia's North Queensland cane fields, Fields of Fire Series 3 takes the story into the 1950s, where Gina and Paolo are successful cane growers.
- StarsHeather ThomasAndrew ClarkeJames HealeyA fashion designer returns home to Australia from America intent on becoming a major player in the Australian fashion industry.
- StarsAndrew McFarlaneLorna PattersonKeith EdenFollows the lives of those in the Australian outback flying-doctor service.
- StarsAnthony PerkinsPatrick MacneeSamantha EggarIn 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
- StarsBill KerrDorothy AlisonDale RandallFour part biopic about classic Australian author A.B. Facey (1894-1982). Born in a large impoverished family, uneducated and illiterate, he had to fend for himself since he was eight, and as a recruit in WWI, he was sent to Gallipoli.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsRichard HuwNique NeedlesAdrian RawlinsA dramatisation of the race to the four-minute mile, featuring Richard Huw as Bannister and Nique Needles as Landy. It was written by David Williamson and directed by Jim Goddard.
- StarsJohn MeillonNoeline BrownJudi FarrTwelve year old Sean is dying of leukaemia, with only a few months to live, and his blue-collar dad Casey decides he'll brighten his life up by granting him three wishes: to own a dog, be reunited with his mother, and meet the Queen.
- StarsIain GlenKevin DillonSteven VidlerIn 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photojournalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ropes, learns about the war first in Saigon, and then "in country" on patrol with troops. He and his colleagues, including the sons of Errol Flynn and John Steinbeck, capture the war in pictures, recover from their wounds, swap stories, battle censorship, and support each other between the explosions at the brothel run by Tranh Ki: "Frankie's House".
- StarsNikki CoghillBernard HillLloyd MorrisA group of Irishmen are shipped to Australia as convicts in the 1870s but one, John O'Reilly escapes to America and then attempts a rescue of his friends.
- DirectorBrendan MaherStarsBelinda DaveyGary DayDeborra-Lee FurnessA twisted tale of love, blackmail and murder set against the emotional world of surrogacy, Glass Babies explores the scientific breakthrough of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to not only provide a baby to a loving mother, but as a means to fulfill a family legacy. Desperate to provide an heir to the family fortune and unable to conceive naturally, Sally (Belinda Davey) and Michael Craig (Andrew Sharp) are at their wits' end. Concerned about securing a dynasty to carry on his empire, millionaire wine-maker John Craig (George Mikkel) dispatches his lawyer Brendan Keller (Garry Day) to arrange IVF treatment for Sally and Michael as well as a possible surrogate mother. Dr. Ruth McCrae (Gold Logie winner Rowena Wallace) brings the Craig family dreams closer to reality, also treating Joan Simpson (Deborra-Lee Furness) who, for a sum of money, agrees to act as a surrogate for the family. However, when an unexpected turn of events leads to tragedy, opportunities are wide open for deception and blackmail forcing Joan to weigh up the true value of her baby's love.
- StarsKate NelliganJohn BachRachel FriendA heartwarming rags-to-riches story of a family during the Depression. The story is from a novel by Mary Grant Bruce.
- StarsRay BarrettChristiane KrügerElizabeth AlexanderAn Englishman becomes involved with a mysterious Australian goldmine.
- CreatorLynn BayonasStarsStephen WhittakerGeneviève PicotFelicity SoperA family discovers their new house is a portal to the afterlife.
- StarsJohn BachCatherine WilkinGary DayBased in Melbourne, Australia in the 1980s, a true story about a group of men desperate for money who plan one of the greatest heists in Australian history. Bigger then any of their previous jobs this one is a lot harder then ever thought of but evading police and staying low is a much bigger task.
- DirectorTim BurstallStarsJohn StantonSigrid ThorntonRobert ColebyA humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- StarsLorraine BaylyLiddy ClarkMax CullenAgatha Christie style whodunnit based on the novel by 'Jennifer Rowe'. This two part television mini-series was made by the South Australian Film Corporation and lensed in the luscious Adelaide Hills district. Mystery is set around during a fruitpicking harvest when a murder occurs during a family reunion one weekend.
- StarsTim HughesRobert ReynoldsCaroline GoodallFictional story about the 1934 London - Melbourne MacPherson Robertson Air race built around actual events and actual people.
- StarsPaul RhysJohn BachJohn HargreavesIn 1943 a group of Australian and British Commandos used a captured Japanese fishing boat to sail from Australia to Singapore to attack Japanese shipping in Singapore harbour. Using canoes the team paddled through the defences to place Limpet Mines on their targets. The attack was successful with seven ships being sunk or damaged.
- StarsNathaniel ParkerChristopher MorsleyJohn BachThe true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one of the most daring raids of WW2. In September 1944 Ivan Lyon and 22 Australian and British troops attempted to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore. Just 10 miles away from the target they are discovered and so begin a long and desperate bid to escape to Australia. The series shows how after the war it is revealled that 13 men were killed during the pursuit and that the remaining 10 were murdered by the Japanese in a war crime. Tragically this was covered up and their killers were never charged while the men themselves never received any honours for their heroism.
- StarsLewis Fitz-GeraldTony BarryJulie HamiltonWe follow the life of Alan Marshall who was struck down by Polio as a child and it shows how he overcame the crippling effects of the disease. It traces his life from childhood into early adulthood. Based upon his trilogy of autobiographical books "I can Jump Puddles", "This is the Grass" and "In Mine Own Heart".
- StarsFatima UygunVichea TenSheryl MunksA four-part miniseries set in inner-city Melbourne, Australia, depicting the lives of four adolescents from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds: Turkish, Cambodian, Macedonian, and Anglo-Australian.
- DirectorMichael CarsonStarsCarmen DuncanKit TaylorLulu PinkusA married couple both become attracted to other people.
- StarsAnnie JonesTina BursillDavid McCubbinJackaroo is a 1990 Australian mini series about a half-caste who goes to work on a West Australian property and falls in love with a girl.
- StarsMatthew FargherKim KrejusAlexander MacDonaldA family struggles to survive on a harsh land.
- StarsJonathan SweetClaire CrowtherLiddy ClarkAt the beginning of the 20th Century a lad living on the streets decided to make something of himself.
- StarsKerry MackNicholas EadieArron Wayne CullA sweeping historical mini-series based on the true story of Jessica Miller and ex-RAF pilot Bill Lancaster, The Lancaster Miller Affair explores a remarkable and controversial partnership that stood the test of time. Seeking to broaden her horizons and pursue the romance of adventure, Jessica bankrolls a bold venture - with Bill in 1927 to be the first aviators to fly from Britain to Australia.
- StarsPenelope StewartPatrick DicksonBenjamin FranklinFollows the Australian Labor Party, from 1892 to 1974, through the eyes of the fictional Quinn family.
- StarsBill HunterColin McEwanRon BlanchardThe Last Bastion is a television mini-series telling the story of Australia's involvement in World War II, and its often strained relations with its two main allies, Great Britain and the United States.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsLinda EvansJack ThompsonJason RobardsA single mother from LA marries an Australian cattle rancher following a whirlwind courtship. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children, and dies before they arrive. His widow is left with a debt-ridden ranch during one of the worst droughts in Australian history. In addition, she has land-grabbing neighbors to contend with.
- StarsJohn JarrattSteve BisleyElaine KussackAustralia's most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly.
- DirectorMichael JenkinsStarsKevin KnapmanChristine TremarcoFrances BarberTwo English children are uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
- StarsRobert ColebyMarius GoringAnn MichellePaul Gerrard is a man in search of his missing father - a wayward archaeologist who has disappeared from Greece.
- StarsBeverly BlankenshipFrank GallacherJane NorrisSarah and Jane Norris star alongside their real-life mother Julia Blake as two girls who go missing in what is suspected to be an alien abduction.
- StarsRonald FalkMonica MaughanJohn FitzgeraldA man's life from 1930s-1970s
- StarsWendy HughesSam NeillBarry QuinBased on the novel by Martin Boyd (1946) this miniseries tells the story of many generations of a family who migrate from England to Australia and eventually back to England, suffering poverty and becoming social climbers. The family's social ambitions lead to conflicts between Lucinda and her parents over the attentions of Tony Duff. She therefore marries wealthy Englishman Hugo Brayford and moves to England with him. A series of failures and adulterous episodes in England lead to her experience of "geographical schizophrenia" and personality disintegration.
- StarsFranco NeroCatherine WilkinDennis MillerItalian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crime bosses, the corrupt judges and the politicians. One day, Paolo's public zeal leads to a private loss; his wife is killed and his son disappears. As he follows a potential Mafia connection to Australia, his search for his son turns into an obsessive pursuit but in an ominous landscape of political and police corruption, business fraud, media intrigue, drugs smuggling and illegal arms dealing, the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
- StarsHelen MorseKerry ArmstrongJacqui GordonDuring World War II Marion Richards takes up a post as a schoolteacher in rural Victoria, overcoming initial hostility she then falls in love with an Italian P.O.W.
- StarsLinda CropperNell SchofieldJulie HaselerThe story of opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
- StarsTom JenningsCatherine McClementsChristopher CumminsSet against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent romance between a pair of star-crossed teenagers (Tom Jennings and Catherine McClements) that threatens to tear it apart. Gordon Jackson, Christopher Cummins and Christopher Mayer also star in director Pino Amenta's adaptation of James Aldridge's novel of the same name.
- StarsNigel HaversNoni HazlehurstDavid GulpililA man is befriended by Indigenous Australians and becomes a cattle tycoon. The movie is based on the novel by Olaf Ruhen.
- StarsNoni HazlehurstJohn WatersShane BriantNancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. This miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles. With Europe on the brink of war, they fall desperately in love and are married as Hitler begins his relentless march oh Holland and Belgium.
- StarsHelen MorseBryan BrownGordon JacksonSet against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
- StarsScott McGregorScott BurgessSigrid ThorntonTwo young men from the country join the army and leave for World War I.
- StarsChris HallamMichele FawdonPhil SumnerThe story of the Heidelberg School, an influential art movement in 19th-century Australia.
- StarsJason ConneryJosephine ByrnesRichard WilsonDr Chris Masters finds himself working in the Pacific Islands after his accidently killing a thug, his only option from the hospital board. The four part TV drama follows his time working with Dr Read on Korralona working on his passion to beat cholera. While there he falls in love with the daughter of the islands princess as she grows into womanhood. And through the occupation by Japanese during WW2 the trials and tribulations of the couple are portraid. It was a masterpiece in 1992 and can now only be found on YouTube. The filming was done mainly in Rarratonga (cook islands) with a great cast and beautiful settings.
- StarsRowena WallaceTony BonnerSigrid ThorntonAustralian miniseries about Melbourne society just before World War I.
- StarsHenri SzepsMichael O'NeillDeidre RubensteinThe story of the Mendel family, owners of the working class Sydney Hotel the Dundee Palace, seen through the eyes of writer Tom Raynor who lives in the hotel.
- StarsJohn BachOliver TobiasRebecca GillingThe rise to international power of a fictional Australian entrepreneur (Philip Cromwell). From one Sydney tabloid he builds a world empire, becoming the nation's most powerful media mogul and fêted by heads of state.
- StarsAlex MengletEva SitteováSimon ChilversThe defection of Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov in Canberra in 1954.
- StarsPaul MasonJustine SaundersTessa MallosA well to do Melbourne doctor moves to the small town of Redfearn. The first episode was basically a stand alone play about the doctor working in a Sydney slum area.
- StarsNick TateJohn GreggKerry FrancisFive former friends meet up again at a school reunion, giving the men a chance to reminisce about their shared past, contemplate their present circumstances and make plans for the future.
- DirectorBrian BellStarsPeter SumnerKate FitzpatrickRichard MoirA lawyer and an actress fight a bitter custody battle over their child after their divorce.
- DirectorRay AlchinStarsPeter BaaskeVincent BallRobert Baxter
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsBrad DavisJack ThompsonLouise LaparéDramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985.