Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "australian-historical-setting"

1. The Artful Dodger (2023– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

8.0

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Set in 1850s Australia the series follows adult double life of Charles Dickens' famous prince of thieves Dodger now a surgeon, but who can't shake his predilection for crime.

Stars: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis, Maia Mitchell, Damon Herriman

Votes: 11,015

2. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

8.2

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A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.

Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 17,718

3. Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019–2021)

TV-G | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.3

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In swinging 60's Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea.

Stars: Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements, Louisa Mignone

Votes: 2,990

4. A Place to Call Home (2013–2018)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama

8.3

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Sarah Adams returns to Australia post World War II to start anew. She begins working in a hospital, much to the dismay of Elizabeth Bligh, a wealthy matriarch.

Stars: Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo, Craig Hall

Votes: 6,279

5. The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2013–2018)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.0

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Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning, to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon.

Stars: Nadine Garner, Craig McLachlan, Charlie Cousins, Joel Tobeck

Votes: 5,102

6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

6.2

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Three schoolgirls and their governesses mysteriously disappear on Valentines Day in 1900.

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Harrison Gilbertson

Votes: 4,477

7. Banished (2015)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History

7.4

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British convicts have been sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. As they try to live their new lives, they have to live with the new rules. The soldiers also have to adjust.

Stars: Orla Brady, Ewen Bremner, MyAnna Buring, Ryan Corr

Votes: 4,165

8. Love Child (2014–2017)

45 min | Drama

7.6

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The lives of staff and residents at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and Stanton House in Sydney in 1969.

Stars: Jessica Marais, Mandy McElhinney, Miranda Tapsell, Sophie Bloom

Votes: 1,576

9. Wild Boys (2011)

60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

6.8

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Australia 1860s, Wild Boys follows a gang of bushrangers as they stage hold-ups determined to keep ahead of the troopers or wind up at the end of a noose.

Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Michael Dorman, Alexander England, Zoe Ventoura

Votes: 501

10. New Gold Mountain (2021)

218 min | Drama, History, Western

6.3

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1857, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp struggles to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links to the Chinese community.

Stars: Yoson An, Alyssa Sutherland, Christopher James Baker, Sam Wang

Votes: 401