List of Australian history films
# List of Australian history films

This is a List of films about Australian history.

## Prior to European settlement

* Ten Canoes (2007)

## Early European settlement

* The Birth of White Australia (1928)
* Heritage (1935)
* Botany Bay (1953)

### Convicts

* For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
* Against the Wind (1978) (mini series)

## Gold Rush era

* Eureka Stockade (1948)
* Eureka Stockade (1984) (mini-series)

## Bushranger era

* The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
* Captain Thunderbolt (1953)
* various versions of Robbery Under Arms - ones made in 1957
* The Proposition (2005)

## Up to and around Federation

* Wills and Burke (1985)
* Burke and Wills (1985)
* The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
* Oscar and Lucinda (2000)

## Boer War

* 'Breaker' Morant (1980)

## World War I

### Gallipoli Campaign

* The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)
* Murphy of Anzac (1916)
* Gallipoli (1981)
* Break of Day (1976)

### Palestinian Campaign

* Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)
* The Lighthorsemen (1987)

### Other theatres

* How we Beat the Emden (1915)

## World War II

### Australia

* The Overlanders (1946)
* Australia (2008)

### African Campaign

* The Rats of Tobruk (1944) - with final sequences in New Guinea

### Pacific War

* Attack Force Z (1981)
* Kokoda (2006)

## Vietnam War

* The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
* Vietnam (1988) - mini series
* The Dish (2001)
* Dirty Deeds (2002)
