778 Films & TV Shows Set In Oceania
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The Thin Red Line
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands The 1940sSet during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic, battle-scarred veteran, hates Doll, whom he considers a coward. In battle, Doll kills a Japanese soldier and is filled with remorse, which further angers the sergeant. The next day, an emboldened Doll wipes out an entire enemy machine gun post and begins to feel as sadistic as Welsh. The two must work together to clear away some mines, but as they do, their platoon is surprised by a Japanese raid.
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Runaway
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1960sToo Scared to Turn Back...A nightmare chase across the scenic splendour of New Zealand — A nightmare chase across the scenic splendor of a wild continent. David Manning, a young accountant, is unable to live within his income. He spends his spare time in Auckland with the young set - and his friends Sandra, Dorothy and Athol all like the outdoor life in the daytime and the bright lights at night. David finds himself in financial difficulties and leaves his job.
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Donovan's Reef
New England South Pacific - GeneralGangway...For This Years BIG Adventure! — 'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
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PT 109
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands The 1940sMost men would have given up...But not the crew of PT 109 — Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
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Operation Bikini
🇲🇭 Marshall IslandsOn a BEACHHEAD or in a BEACH HOUSE... they always made a perfect score! — The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
🇵🇫 French Polynesia South Pacific - General Pacific Ocean The 18th CenturyThe mightiest excitement that ever swept across the sea or the screen! — The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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In Search of the Castaways
Scotland 🇦🇺 Australia 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1850s The 1880sA Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills! — Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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No Man is an Island
🇬🇺 GuamThe true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
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Tiara Tahiti
South Pacific - GeneralJames Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
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They Found a Cave
TasmaniaFour English orphans migrate to Tasmania to live on a farm in the wild Tasmanian bush with their aunt, Jandie (Barbara Manning).
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
South Pacific - GeneralThey jumped into hell to save part of heaven. — A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
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Seven Women from Hell
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1940sSeven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
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Two Loves
🇳🇿 New ZealandSo busy with her children...SHE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET MARRIED! — An American spinster who takes a job teaching Maori students in New Zealand finds unexpected romance with two men.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
🇦🇺 Australia 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1940sYou'll crack your timbers when you see how the Navy sticks the Army sad sacks with the crumbiest ship afloat! — Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
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Up Periscope
🇰🇮 KiribatiThe man they called the 'human torpedo' - the secret underwater marauder who hit like no man hit before! — Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
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On the Beach
California Victoria The 1960sThe Biggest Story of Our Time! — In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
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The Ambitious One
South Pacific - GeneralThis Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is the black sheep of a wealthy family of mining financiers based in France. He dumps the family life style and heads to Tahiti to make it on his own. His wife, Andrea Parisy, is less than amused with Basehart's choice.
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Tarawa Beachhead
🇰🇮 Kiribati 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands The 1940sDirector Paul Wendkos' 1958 WWII drama stars Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe and Onslow Stevens.
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The Stowaway
South Pacific - GeneralA group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.
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Dust in the Sun
Northern TerritoryA Northern Territory policeman, is given the job of taking an Aboriginal prisoner Emu Foot, to Alice Springs to be tried for a tribal killing. Bayard is wounded during a revenge attack by tribesmen, and Emu Foot helps him get to a remote cattle station. But there Bayard gets involved in a domestic crisis involving Julie Kirkbride, the neurotic, bored wife of the station owner, and is tempted by the head stockman's daughter Chris Palady.
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Walk Into Paradise
🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaLast frontier of the real witch doctor! — Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
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Bedevilled Rabbit
TasmaniaHidden in a box of carrots, Bugs lands in Tasmania, where he matches wits with the Tasmanian Devil.
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Until They Sail
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1940sThey couldn't have the love they wanted, so they took the love they could get! — Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
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The Shiralee
🇦🇺 AustraliaAn Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
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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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