List of Australian history films explained

This is a List of films about Australian history.

Prior to European settlement

• Ten Canoes (2007)

Early European settlement

• The Birth of White Australia (1928)
• Heritage (1935)
• Botany Bay (1953)

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

• The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)
• Murphy of Anzac (1916)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• Break of Day (1976)

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

• The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
• Vietnam (1988) - mini series
• The Dish (2001)
• Dirty Deeds (2002)