Jack Thompson Movies

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from...

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous...

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets &...

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.

It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp....

A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a...

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But...

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape,...

Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the...

Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.