12 Films & TV Shows Set In Papua New Guinea During The 20th Century
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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.
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Mr. Pip
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1990sWhen they needed hope, he gave them great expectations. — As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
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Kokoda
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1940sA bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
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Harry's War
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1940sA story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that embraces culture, war and death. Two mates – Harry is a Koori and Mitch a non-Aboriginal Australian – head off to fight in the jungles of Papua New Guinea during WWII.
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
🇯🇵 Japan 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1990s The 1830sCatastrophe 1999 — Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Tokyo Prefecture 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1970s The 1950s The 1940sA war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
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The Valley
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1970sObscured by clouds — Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'obscured by clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'.
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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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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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The Rats of Tobruk
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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Marine Raiders
California 🇦🇺 Australia 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands The 1940sCOURAGE - Cold as the Steel of their Bayonets! ROMANCE - Warm as the Love which Inspires It! ACTION - Shaking the Skies! — A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
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Pearls and Savages
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea The 1920sFrank Hurley (1885-1962) was firmly established by 1925 as Australia's most famous photographer. After World War 1, having filled the position as the first official photographer of the Australian war effort, Hurley became interested in Papua New Guinea. In December 1920, he left Australia to record the work of Anglican missions in Papua and to make "travelogue entertainment". The result was this documentary, "Pearls and Savages" which was released in Sydney, in December 1921.
