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Australian Miniseries

by Philip_Marlowe_ • Created 4 years ago • Modified 5 months ago
Every TV Mini-Series or Limited Series produced in Australia
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  • A Town Like Alice (1981)

    1. A Town Like Alice

    19813 epsTV Mini Series
    8.3 (1.1K)
    Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
    StarsHelen MorseBryan BrownGordon Jackson
  • Against the Wind (1978)

    2. Against the Wind

    197813 epsTV Mini Series
    8.1 (1K)
    Eighteen-year-old Mary Mulvane gets convicted for trying to get back her father's cow. She has to endure the travel in a prison ship from Ireland and living the life of a convict in Australia.
    StarsMary LarkinKerry McGuireJon English
  • Return to Eden (1983)

    3. Return to Eden

    19833 epsTV Mini Series
    7.1 (1.7K)
    Meet plain but privileged multi-millionairess Stephanie Harper, whose sole mistake is to fall for handsome young sporting hero Greg Marsden.
    StarsRebecca GillingJames ReyneWendy Hughes
  • Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward in The Thorn Birds (1983)

    4. The Thorn Birds

    19834 epsUnratedTV Mini Series
    7.9 (11K)
    In the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire. How far are they willing to go in the name of love?
    StarsRichard ChamberlainRachel WardChristopher Plummer
  • The Shiralee (1987)

    5. The Shiralee

    19872 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    7.4 (482)
    Macauley is a swagman who finds himself in charge of his young daughter, Buster. The pair hike across the harsh outback landscape, in an attempt to repair their relationship and find a home.
    StarsBryan BrownNoni HazlehurstRebecca Smart
  • Yvonne Strahovski in Stateless (2020)

    6. Stateless

    20206 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    7.5 (12K)
    Inspired by true events; a woman escaping a cult, a refugee fleeing with his family, a father trapped in a dead-end job and a bureaucrat on the verge of a national scandal find their lives intertwined in an immigration detention center.
    CreatorsTony AyresCate BlanchettElise McCredieStarsYvonne StrahovskiJai CourtneyAsher Keddie
  • All the Rivers Run (1983)

    7. All the Rivers Run

    19838 epsTV Mini Series
    7.6 (747)
    Orphaned after a shipwreck, Philadelphia Gordon finds love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer navigating Australia's Murray River.
    StarsSigrid ThorntonJohn WatersDarius Perkins
  • Anzacs (1985)

    8. Anzacs

    19856 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    8.0 (893)
    The lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the ANZACs. Fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, then on the Western Front for the remainder of WWI, it's the story of the hardships, camaraderie and casualties of war.
    StarsAndrew ClarkePaul HoganJon Blake
  • Essie Davis, Ann Dowd, Jessica Barden, and Sam Reid in Lambs of God (2019)

    9. Lambs of God

    20194 epsTV Mini Series
    7.3 (2.8K)
    Lambs of God is a dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.
    StarsEssie DavisJessica BardenSam Reid
  • Elizabeth Debicki in The Kettering Incident (2016)

    10. The Kettering Incident

    20168 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    6.7 (4.2K)
    Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to the disappearance of two girls, fifteen years apart.
    CreatorsVicki MaddenVincent SheehanStarsElizabeth DebickiMatthew Le NevezHenry Nixon
  • Bodyline (1984)

    11. Bodyline

    19847 epsTV Mini Series
    8.4 (881)
    Captain Jardine's England team employs brutal "bodyline" tactics against Australian batsmen during the 1932-33 Ashes series, sparking outrage and damaging Anglo-Australian cricket relations.
    StarsHugo WeavingGary SweetJim Holt
  • Bangkok Hilton (1989)

    12. Bangkok Hilton

    19893 epsTV Mini Series
    7.8 (5.4K)
    Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott star in a 1989 miniseries about a young woman in a Thai prison for carrying her boyfriend's heroin.
    StarsNicole KidmanDenholm ElliottHugo Weaving
  • Cloudstreet (2011)

    13. Cloudstreet

    20113 epsTV Mini Series
    7.4 (592)
    The lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963.
    StarsKerry FoxGeoff MorrellStephen Curry
  • Vietnam (1987)

    14. Vietnam

    198710 epsTV Mini Series
    7.6 (635)
    Vietnam is a stunningly powerful re-enactment of the bitterly controversial issue of Australia's involvement in what was perceived as an American war.
    StarsBarry OttoNicole KidmanNicholas Eadie
  • Jessica (2004)

    15. Jessica

    20043h 16mTV Movie
    7.4 (566)
    Young Jessica is sent to a mental asylum by her rotten family on a false pretense. Her only chance is a down-on-his-luck boozing lawyer.
    DirectorPeter AndrikidisStarsLeeanna WalsmanLisa HarrowSam Neill
  • Yael Stone and Noah Taylor in Deep Water (2016)

    16. Deep Water

    20164 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    6.8 (4K)
    When a young gay man is brutally murdered near Bondi Beach, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned to investigate. After more bodies are found, Tori links the deaths to a series of murders of gay men in the 1980s and '90s.
    StarsNoah TaylorYael StoneJeremy Lindsay Taylor
  • The Dirtwater Dynasty (1988)

    17. The Dirtwater Dynasty

    19885 epsTV Mini Series
    8.1 (215)
    The story of embittered rivalry, triumph and despair. The life of a man spanning three generations and eight decades who comes to Australia from England. His ranching empire begins.
    StarsHugo WeavingVictoria LongleySteve Jacobs
  • My Brother Jack (2001)

    18. My Brother Jack

    20013h 2mTV Movie
    7.0 (141)
    A boy looks up to his big brother, Jack, who is his hero and is someone that he is not - brave, noble and has the courage to stand up to their father. When their father returns from the battlefields of France to his family, he sends his younger son to an apprenticeship in a jam factory designing the labels. There, his boss sends him off to art school, but his real passion is writing. He began to send small stories into the newspaper. While the boy cannot draw, he discovers that he has a talent for writing. The depression sets in. The older son, Jack, who had escaped to the country returns with a girl suffering double pneumonia. Worst of all she is a Catholic and the father hates Catholics. The phrase Susso kids: the outbreak of World war II. Brother Jack rushes to enlist and his brother was unable/not allowed because he was a key reporter for the newspapers. They need him for propaganda.
    DirectorKen CameronStarsMatt DaySimon LyndonClaudia Karvan
  • Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012)

    19. Howzat! Kerry Packer's War

    20122 epsTV Mini Series
    7.7 (753)
    Set in the 1970s, media mogul Kerry Packer signs top cricketers for his World Series Cricket, challenging established cricketing authorities.
    StarsLachy HulmeAbe ForsytheDamon Gameau
  • Sam Neill, Mandy McElhinney, and Peta Sergeant in House of Hancock (2015)

    20. House of Hancock

    20152 epsTV Mini Series
    7.1 (148)
    A mining tycoon battles her children in court over control of her father's multi billion-dollar empire as she strives to expand operations amidst fluctuating fortunes.
    StarsMandy McElhinneyPeta SergeantSam Neill
  • Lachy Hulme and Patrick Brammall in Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story (2013)

    21. Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story

    20132 epsTV Mini Series
    7.6 (123)
    The true story about the life and Times of Channel 9 owner and millionaire Kerry Packer
    StarsLachy HulmePatrick BrammallLuke Ford
  • Rob Carlton and Asher Keddie in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011)

    22. Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

    20112 epsTV Mini Series
    7.7 (565)
    The Whitlam era as seen through the eyes of Cleo magazine and its young editor, Ita Buttrose.
    CreatorsImogen BanksJohn EdwardsChristopher LeeStarsAsher KeddieRob CarltonJessica Tovey
  • Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS (2014)

    23. Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS

    20142 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    7.7 (1.5K)
    The story of INXS, their personal lives and their rise to fame from Australian pubs to stadiums all around the world.
    StarsDamon HerrimanLuke ArnoldHugh Sheridan
  • Rob Carlton, Rachel Griffiths, and Mandy McElhinney in Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (2013)

    24. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars

    20132 epsTV Mini Series
    7.3 (162)
    Mini-Series about the golden years of the glossy women's magazines and the battle to have the number one selling publication in Australia.
    StarsRachel GriffithsMandy McElhinneyRob Carlton
  • Molly (2016)

    25. Molly

    20162 epsTV Mini Series
    7.3 (333)
    The story of how, from the early 1970s, Australia's eccentric Ian 'Molly' Meldrum became a loved and respected rock music guru as host of the TV show Countdown.
    CreatorsMatt CameronLiz DoranJohn MolloyStarsSamuel JohnsonT.J. PowerTom O'Sullivan

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