List of films shot in Darwin
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Darwin
or elsewhere in the Northern Territory
, Australia
. There are almost 50 movies listed in the Internet Movie Database
as having been shot in Darwin. This is a list of the more prominent, commercial or notable films.
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
or elsewhere in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. There are almost 50 movies listed in the Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
as having been shot in Darwin. This is a list of the more prominent, commercial or notable films.
Films
| Film | Year | Locations | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named... |
1994 | Watarrka National Park, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Erskineville, Newtown, Silverton, Stephen's Creek, Sydney, New South Wales; Coober Pedy, Moon Plain, South Australia - Australia | |
| Australia Australia (2008 film) Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood... |
2008 | Darwin, Northern Territory; Bowen, Roma, Queensland; Camden, Moore Park, Sydney, Vaucluse, New South Wales; Carlton Hill, Kimberley Range, Kununurra, Western Australia - Australia | |
| Balibo Balibo (2009 film) Balibo is a 2009 Australian feature film that follows the story of the Balibo Five, a group of journalists who were captured and killed whilst reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is loosely based on the book Cover-Up, by Jill Jolliffe, an... |
2008 | Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia; East Timor | |
| Black Water Black Water (film) Black Water is a 2007 Australian horror/thriller film set in the mangrove seas of northern Australia. It was written and directed by Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich and stars Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody and Andy Rodoreda... |
2007 | Darwin, Northern territory; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia | |
| Burke & Wills Burke & Wills Burke & Wills is a 1985 Australian adventure film directed by Graeme Clifford, starring Jack Thompson and Nigel Havers. The film is based on the true story of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition across Australia.... |
1985 | Northern Territory; Coober Pedy, Cooper's Creek, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia; England - UK | |
| Bush School | 2006 | Darwin, Warrego, Northern Territory; Armidale, New South Wales - Australia | |
| Crocodile Dundee Crocodile Dundee "Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton.... |
1986 | Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory; McKinlay, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Manhattan, New York City, New York; Newark, New Jersey, USA | |
| Crocodile Dundee II | 1988 | Northern Territory - Australia; Long Island, New York City, New York - USA | |
| Dead Heart | 1996 | Jay Creek, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| The Dove The Dove (1974 film) The Dove is a 1974 American biographical film directed by Charles Jarrott. The picture was produced by Gregory Peck, the third and last feature film he would produce.... |
1974 | Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia; Cape Town - South Africa; Ecuador; Fiji; Los Angeles, California - USA; Lourenco Marques, Mozambique; Panama Canal, Panama; South Africa; Suva - Fiji | |
| Evil Angels | 1988 | Alice Springs, Darwin, Northern Territory; Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; Mount Isa, Queensland - Australia | |
| Jedda Jedda Jedda was the last movie made by the Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel. The film is most notable for being the first to star two Aboriginal actors in the leading roles, and also to be the first Australian film shot in colour... |
1955 | Central Australia, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Journey Out of Darkness | 1967 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Ross River, Queensland; Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia | |
| Kangaroo Jack Kangaroo Jack Kangaroo Jack is a 2003 American comedy film directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Estella Warren and Adam Garcia... |
2003 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Canowindra, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales; Lunar Plains, Moon Plain, Coober Pedy, South Australia - Australia; Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California - USA | |
| Love Me Again Love Me Again (film) Love Me Again is a 2009 Filipino film starring Angel Locsin with Piolo Pascual released under Star Cinema. The film was directed by award-winning film director Rory Quintos.... |
2008 | Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia; Impasug-ong, Bukidnon, Mindanao - Philippines | |
| The Man from Hong Kong The Man from Hong Kong The Man from Hong Kong, known in the U.S.A. as The Dragon Flies is a 1975 action film that was the first Australian-Hong Kong co-production being filmed in both nations. The film was also the first Australian martial arts film. It was produced by Raymond Chow and John Fraser, directed by Brian... |
1975 | Uluru/Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory; Stanwell Park, Sunny Corner, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia | |
| Napoleon Napoleon (1995 film) Napoleon is a 1995 Australian film directed by Mario Andreacchio, and written by Mark Saltzman about a golden retriever puppy who runs away from his city home to the wild dogs.- Plot :... |
1995 | Northern Territory; Adelaide Hills, Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Hendon, Kangaroo Island, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales; Tasmania - Australia | |
| The Phantom Stockman The Phantom Stockman The Phantom Stockman is a 1953 Australian western film written and directed by Lee Robinson and starring Chips Rafferty, Victoria Shaw, Max Osbiston and Guy Doleman.-Synopsis:... |
1953 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Quigley Quigley Down Under Quigley Down Under is a 1990 western film set in Australia's outback. Starring Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo, it was directed by Simon Wincer.-Plot:... |
1990 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales; Apollo Bay, Melbourne, Warrnambool, Victoria - Australia | |
| Rogue Rogue (film) War is a 2007 American action thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007 and stars action film actors Jet Li and Jason Statham, making their second collaboration after the... |
2007 | Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory; Maidstone, Yarra Valley, Victoria - Australia | |
| Samson and Delilah Samson and Delilah (2009 film) Samson and Delilah is a 2009 Australian film and was directed by Warwick Thornton. It stars Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson, both young first time actors. It was filmed in and around Alice Springs... |
2009 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Ten Canoes Ten Canoes Ten Canoes is a 2006 film. It was directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starred Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling across the Arafura Swamp, taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in... |
2006 | Arafura Swamp, Arnhem Land, Ramingining, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Until the End of the World Until the End of the World Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda... |
1991 | Utopia Station, Northern Territory; Coober Pedy, South Australia - Australia; Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Berlin - Germany; Hauts-de-Seine, Paris - France; Lisbon - Portugal; Moscow - Russia; San Francisco, California - USA; Tokyo - Japan; Venice, Veneto - Italy | |
| We of the Never Never We of the Never Never We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published this book... |
1982 | Katherine, Mataranka, Roper River, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Welcome to Woop Woop Welcome to Woop Woop Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian-British comedy film, directed by Stephan Elliott starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy... |
1997 | Alice Springs, Northern Territory - Australia; Portland, Oregon - USA | |
| World Safari World Safari World Safari is a documentary film released in 1977 made from footage of Alby Mangels and John Field's six year journey around 56 countries and four continents in the 1970s... |
1977 | Darwin, Hermannsburg, Palm Valley, Finke Gorge National Park, Melville Island, Northern Territory; Adelaide, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Agadez - Niger; Calcutta, West Bengal - India; Cape Town - South Africa; Democratic Republic Of Congo; Ethiopia; Guam; India; Kano, Kano State - Nigeria; Kenya; Kiribati; Mpatamanga, Lake Malawi - Malawi; Mombasa, Lake Nakuru National Park, Nairobi - Kenya; Rumphi District - Malawi; Mozambique; Netherlands; Nyiragongo - Democratic Republic Of Congo; Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands - Kiribati; Penang - Malaysia; Sahara Desert, Africa; Thailand; Tokyo - Japan; Tonga; Victoria Falls, Livingstone - Zambia; Mount Fuji, Shizuoka, Wakkanai, Kyoto, Hokkaido, Sapporo - Japan | |
| Walkabout Walkabout (film) Walkabout is a 1971 film set in Australia, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the novel Walkabout by James Vance Marshall... |
1971 | Alice Springs, Arnhem Land, Darwin, Northern Territory; Flinders Ranges, Iron Knob, Lake Eyre, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia | |
| Yolngu Boy Yolngu Boy Yolngu Boy is an Australian film which was released in 2001.The film is about three Aboriginal Australians, Botj , Lorrpu and Milika , that trek through Australia's Top End after Botj, recently released from prison, commits arson and vandalism while high from sniffing petrol... |
2001 | Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia | |
| Young Einstein Young Einstein Young Einstein is an Australian comedy film directed by and starring Yahoo Serious, released in 1988.-Plot:Albert Einstein, the son of an apple farmer in Tasmania in the early 1900s, splits a beer atom with a chisel in order to add bubbles to beer, discovers the theory of relativity and travels to... |
1988 | Uluru/Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory; Blue Mountains, Newcastle, Sydney, The Rocks, Wollombi, New South Wales - Australia |
See also
- Australian Film CommissionAustralian Film CommissionThe Australian Film Commission was an Australian government agency with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a production arm responsible for production and commissioning of films for government...
- Cinema of AustraliaCinema of AustraliaCinema of Australia, more commonly referred to as the Australian film industry, refers to the system of production, distribution, and exhibition of films in Australia. Film production commenced in Australia in 1906 with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film made...
- Film AustraliaFilm AustraliaFilm Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia. Its mission was to create an audio-visual record of Australian culture, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs that deal with matters of national interest or...
- Screen AustraliaScreen AustraliaScreen Australia is the Federal Government’s key funding body for the Australian screen production industry. Its functions are to support and promote the development of a highly creative, innovative and commercially sustainable industry....
- World cinemaWorld cinemaWorld cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English speaking countries. It is therefore often used interchangeably with the term foreign film...
- List of Australian films
- List of films set in Australia
- List of films shot in Adelaide
- List of films shot in Melbourne
- List of films shot in Queensland
- List of films shot in Sydney
- List of films shot in Tasmania
- List of films shot in Western Australia
Further reading
- Adamson, Judith. A Film Australia miscellany. Lindfield, N.S.W. : Film Australia, 1991.
- Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Dawson, Jonathan, and Bruce Molloy, eds. Queensland Images in Film and Television. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
- Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka, eds. The Screening of Australia, Volume 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry. Sydney: Currency Press, 1987.
- — — — . The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988.
- Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985.
- Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Film: 1978 – 1994. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553777-7
- Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-550784-3
- McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-553797-1
- Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia : government film since 1945. Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. ISBN 0-86-819292-9.
- Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5459-7
- O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
- Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1926. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1970.
- — — — . History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981.
- Ryan, Mark, David (2009),'Whither Culture? Australian Horror Films and the Limitations of Cultural Policy', Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 133, pp. 43-55.
- Stratton, David. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry. Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1990. 465p. ISBN 0-7329-0250-9
- Verhoeven, DebDeb VerhoevenDeb Verhoeven is currently Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until recently she held the role of Director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book...
. Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. ISBN 0-522-85239-4 - — — — ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-876310-00-6