Jack Thompson Movies

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque....

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce...

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes...

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood...

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and...

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginal people to be exposed to...

Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire....

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from...

Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.