Jack Thompson Movies

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during...

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

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

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

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

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

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

Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the...

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque....

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes...

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...

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

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

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

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and...

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

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...

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

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 harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the...