(40,000 Years of Dreaming)

Content: 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."

Countries:

Australia,

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary,

TV Movie

Runtime:

67 minutes

Year:

1996

Directors:

George Miller

Production companies:

BFI,

Kennedy Miller Productions

Actors:

Self - Host / Narrator

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Crews:

Director

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Original Music Composer

Producer