Jack Thompson Movies

Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.

The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops...

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....

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

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

A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.

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

In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

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

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

Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape,...

The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.

Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics...

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with...

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets &...

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

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably...