8 Films & TV Shows Set In Oceania During The 1910s
-
High Ground
Northern Territory The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAustralia's untold history — In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
-
The Light Between Oceans
Western Australia The 1920s The 1910s The 1940sLove demands everything — A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
-
The Water Diviner
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇦🇺 Australia The 1910sTo honour a promise. To find his sons. To make his peace. — In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
-
Die Männer der Emden
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Pacific Ocean The 1910sWhen their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
-
Beneath Hill 60
🇧🇪 Belgium Queensland The 1910sAfter Gallipoli there was still a war to be won. — The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
-
The Wild Duck
Tasmania The 1910sA dramatic and haunting tale of a special love that will charm you, stun you and touch your very soul... — The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
-
Gallipoli
🇪🇬 Egypt Western Australia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sFrom a place you've never heard of, comes a story you'll never forget. — As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
-
Sister Kenny
Queensland The 1910sA woman made for love . . . but whose service to humanity became her destiny! — True story of the Australian nurse who fought to gain acceptance for her polio-treatment methods.
