
40,000 Years of Dreaming
The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
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."
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Movie Details
- Original Title: 40,000 Years of Dreaming
- Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
- Release Date: 1996-11-23
- Runtime: 67 minutes
- Rating: 6.2/10 (5 votes)
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Production Companies: BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
- Status: Released
- Popularity: 0.4691
- Languages: English
Cast & Crew

George Miller
as Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell
as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
Gallery

Trailers & Clips
White Fellas Dreaming - Introduction
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40,000 Years of Dreaming is a Documentary, TV Movie movie directed by . It was released on 1996-11-23.
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The main cast includes George Miller, Joseph Campbell, .
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The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
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40,000 Years of Dreaming has an IMDb rating of 6.2/10 based on 5 votes.
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