10 Films & TV Shows Set In Australia During The 1860s
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True History of the Kelly Gang
🇦🇺 Australia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sThe British Empire branded them as outlaws. The oppressed called them heroes. — Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Nurtured by the notorious bushranger, Harry Power and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
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The Legend of Ben Hall
New South Wales The 1860sLegends never die — Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.
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Chinese Zodiac
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia Beijing 🇦🇺 Australia The 1860s The 2010sTwelve heads. Five continents. One man. — Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
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Quigley Down Under
Western Australia The 1860sThere's a price on his head. A girl on his mind. And a twinkle in his eye. — American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
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Bullseye
South Australia Queensland The 1860sIn the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
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Archer's Adventure
🇦🇺 Australia The 1860sDuring the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.
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Mad Dog Morgan
🇦🇺 Australia The 1860sBeaten, branded, brutalized, but never broken. — The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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Robbery Under Arms
🇦🇺 Australia The 1860sThe Outlaw Who Seared His Brand On the Land! — During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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Capt. Grant's Family
Scotland England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇦🇺 Australia Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean The 1860sThe son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand... Based on Jules Verne novel.
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The Birth of White Australia
New South Wales The 1860s The 18th CenturyAn early Australian silent film depicting historical events on the Young district goldfields, then known as Lambing Flat. During the gold rush of 1861, tensions between Australian miners and immigrant Chinese led to rioting, with Chinese miners attacked and driven from the diggings. The film portrays these events as being the genesis - or birth - of the White Australia policy, a significant political issue of the day.
