Best Australian mini-series
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- CreatorKristen DunphyStarsRudi DharmalingamMandy McElhinneyGeraldine HakewillGifted psychiatric nurse Nik Katira is the most stable person at Wakefield mental health unit in the Blue Mountains of Australia. As his own sanity suddenly starts to slip, he finds himself questioning the line between reality and madness.
- StarsRichard RoxburghTony MartinSteve BastoniSet in 1980s Sydney, this acclaimed mini-series tells the story of the relationship between corrupt Detective Roger Rogerson and one of Australia's most infamous criminals Neddy Smith.
- StarsHugo WeavingGary SweetJim HoltDramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
- DirectorDonald CrombieKen HannamStarsSam NeillSteven VidlerChristopher CumminsFourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainRachel WardChristopher PlummerIn 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?
- StarsXavier SamuelAlex DimitriadesAndrea DemetriadesA complicated chain of events is triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.
- CreatorTony AyresCate BlanchettElise McCredieStarsYvonne StrahovskiJai CourtneyAsher KeddieInspired 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.
- CreatorMatt CameronBelinda ChaykoPhil EnchelmaierStarsEwen LeslieLeeanna WalsmanJoel JacksonA psychological thriller set in Brisbane set around a group of friends whose sailing holiday to Indonesia alters their lives forever after they come across a boat overloaded with asylum seekers.
- StarsCormac CostelloStephen CurryHelen DallimoreThe dramatized true-story of the Granville train disaster in Jan 1977 and the subsequent inquiry. Told across two time-frames: the impossible conditions of rescuers, victims and survivors and the divisive investigation by the Coroner.
- StarsBrenda FrickerSandy GoreJosephine ByrnesThe struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney.
- StarsJohn BachOliver TobiasRebecca GillingThe rise to international power of a fictional Australian entrepreneur (Philip Cromwell). From one Sydney tabloid he builds a world empire, becoming the nation's most powerful media mogul and fêted by heads of state.
- StarsSarah SnookRodger CorserSophie LoweAnna is happily married. She has the perfect family. But one man will change it all.
- StarsMartin HendersonAnthony HayesDiana GlennA man who finds the body of a young boy quickly becomes the prime murder suspect, putting his life and his family at risk.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsArmand AssanteRachel WardBryan BrownAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
- StarsJenna ColemanEwen LeslieAsher KeddieA young woman crumbles after her baby disappears. Though the public is quick to place blame, the truth proves to be more complex.
- StarsStephen CurryAnthony HayesLeon FordSix young men experience pain and horror during their stay in the Japanese Prison Camp during World War II.
- StarsBarry OttoNicole KidmanNicholas EadieVietnam is a stunningly powerful re-enactment of the bitterly controversial issue of Australia's involvement in what was perceived as an American war.
- StarsNicole KidmanDenholm ElliottHugo WeavingNicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott star in a 1989 miniseries about a young woman in a Thai prison for carrying her boyfriend's heroin.
- StarsRebecca GillingJames ReyneWendy HughesMeet plain but privileged multi-millionairess Stephanie Harper, whose sole mistake is to fall for handsome young sporting hero Greg Marsden.
- StarsChris HaywoodNicholas HammondTracy MannDrama serial based on the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Tracy on an area of Darwin on 24th December 1974.