40,000 Years of Dreaming
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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 | Nov 23, 1996 |
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| Runtime | 1h 7min |
| Genre | Documentary, TV Movie |
| Actor | George Miller, Joseph Campbell |
| Director | George Miller |
| Production | BFI |