Jack Thompson Movies

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.

A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and...

Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire....

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes...

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood...

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But...

After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce...

The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique...

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.