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Movies Like The Birth of White Australia

If you liked The Birth of White Australia (1928), a movie directed by Phil K. Walsh, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Nightingale

    The Nightingale (2018)

    ★ 7/10

    In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of…

  2. 2The Legend of Ben Hall

    The Legend of Ben Hall (2016)

    ★ 6/10

    Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.

  3. 3Quigley Down Under

    Quigley Down Under (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10

    American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the…

  4. 4Wake in Fright

    Wake in Fright (1971)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

  5. 5True History of the Kelly Gang

    True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits…

  6. 6Nitram

    Nitram (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a…

  7. 7The Call of the Wild

    The Call of the Wild (2020)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As…

  8. 81992

    1992 (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own…

  9. 9Australia

    Australia (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000…

  10. 10The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River (1982)

    ★ 7/10

    Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.

  11. 11The Rover

    The Rover (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only possession. When a gang steals it, Eric comes across the injured…

  12. 12The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

  13. 13Breath

    Breath (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

  14. 14The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

    The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

    ★ 6.6/10

    To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly…

  15. 15Sweet Country

    Sweet Country (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

  16. 16The Dry

    The Dry (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

  17. 17Mad Max 2

    Mad Max 2 (1981)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot…

  18. 18The Spoilers

    The Spoilers (1942)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

  19. 19North to Alaska

    North to Alaska (1960)

    ★ 6.5/10

    After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally…

  20. 20The Weight

    The Weight (2026)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

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