40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

Released

1996-11-23

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

Runtime

67 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

George Miller

TMDB rating

6.4/10 from 8 votes