Region: Oceania
'Breaker' Morant (Breaker Morant)
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Release Date: 1980
- Production Country: Australia
Three Australian enlisted men find themselves on trial for war crimes after they execute several Boer prisoners and the German missionary who was the only witness. The men insist they were acting under orders, while their officers want to convince the military establishment that the three men were loose cannons operating outside both the law and human decency.
500 Years Later
- Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The people of Africa, scattered all over the globe after 500 years of colonial and imperial encounters, struggle still for equality in education, in opportunity, in prosperity. This is their story.
Against the Wind
- Director: George Miller, Simon Wincer
- Release Date: 1978
- Production Country: Australia
A young Irish girl is unjustly sentenced to prison and deported to Australia. She must survive not only the horrific voyage there, but also her years of service before she can be free. While there, the lower classes and other convicts protest and occasionally outright rebel against the power and privilege the moneyed classes hold over them.
Air Force
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Release Date: 1943
- Production Country: United States
The crew of a B-17 flying fortress sacrifice life and limb while performing heroic acts as part of the early Allied war efforts in the Pacific.
An Inconvenient Truth
- Director: Davis Guggenheim
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: United States
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore embarks upon a campaign to make global warming an issue that can no longer be ignored by the industrialized world.
Ancient Inventions
- Director: Daniel Percival, Phil Grabsky
- Release Date: 1998
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
Ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones skewers modern conceits about past scientific and technological innovations, discussing how they are not products of the modern industrial age–in fact, some inventions are quite ancient and some modern science cannot yet be duplicated.
Anzacs
- Director: Pino Amenta, John Dixon, George Miller
- Release Date: 1985
- Production Country: Australia
After war is declared, a dozen young men in Australia are recruited for the army. Brought together in boot camp, the young men eventually ship out for war, together facing battle, loss, and victory—for those who survive.
Australia
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
An English aristocrat struggles to adapt to life on an Australian ranch as she must fight to retain her property and livelihood, as well as endure the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
Balibo
- Director: Robert Connolly
- Release Date: 2009
- Production Country: Australia
A burnt-out foreign correspondent and a young East Timor man search for five young journalists who disappeared while documenting the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. The two men follow the missing journalists' route, making their own record of the brutality and horror of the invasion, but find their own lives on the line as they close in on the journalists' last known location, Balibo.
Battle Cry
- Director: Raoul Walsh
- Release Date: 1955
- Production Country: United States
Marines must go through boot camp and training before participating in battle, but it does not prepare them for the realities of war–or love.
Beneath Hill 60
- Director: Jeremy Sims
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: Australia
A reluctant Australian miner is recruited to be the head of a secret battalion of explosives and tunneling experts in support of the British Army on the Western Front, but the massive, leaking labyrinth of tunnels beneath Hill 60 proves to be a daunting project, one in which his success supporting the British army might mean sacrificing his own—and the lives of the rest of his fellow tunnelers'.
Botany Bay
- Director: John Farrow
- Release Date: 1953
- Production Country: United States
Aboard the first convict ship bound for Australia, an American doctor is distraught over his unjust conviction and feuds with his fellow prisoners and the ship's captain. After many failed escape attempts, he finally embraces both his stormy relationship with a pretty female prisoner and his fate as one of the founding fathers of the state of Australia.
Call + Response
- Director: Justin Dillon
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: United States
Contrary to popular Western belief, slavery is alive and well in the 21st century. Experts and victims discuss the realities of the slave trade, such as children who are kidnapped to become soldiers or sex workers, while singers and other artists lend their talents in an attempt to raise awareness about the issue.
Captain James Cook
- Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Release Date: 1987
- Production Country: Australia, West Germany, France, Spain
Captain James Cook sets sail to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, but also winds up connecting Europe and the British Empire with Australia and Hawaii.
Cosmos (Cosmos: A Personal Voyage)
- Director: Adrian Malone
- Release Date: 1980
- Production Country: United States
Astronomer Carl Sagan explores the history and expanses of western knowledge about the universe.
Die Juden - Geschichte eines Volkes (The Jews: A People's History)
- Director: Nina Koshofer, Sabine Klauser
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: Germany
The Jewish people's history traces back 4,000 years, from the sands of the Middle East, to the Diaspora in classical times, to the modern-day Israel.
Earthlings
- Director: Shaun Monson
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United States
Hidden cameras document how the world's industry still relies heavily on the use of animals and animal products, from fur to medical research.
Gallipoli
- Director: Peter Weir
- Release Date: 1981
- Production Country: Australia
Two Australians participate in the brutal Gallipoli campaign against the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
Heavenly Creatures
- Director: Peter Jackson
- Release Date: 1994
- Production Country: New Zealand, Germany
Imaginative and intelligent, friends Juliet and Pauline avoid the fearsome real world by escaping into a fantasy heaven they have built together. But when their worried parents threaten to separate the girls permanently, Juliet and Pauline enact a desperate plan to ensure they will never be apart again.
History's Turning Points
- Director: Patrick Fleming
- Release Date: 1997
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Momentous battles and other events in history are examined and re-imagined to determine their historical impact.