Historical Books on Screen

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series 2

2013 - Completed

MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES SERIES 2 is a 13 x 1-hour murder mystery series based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood.The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is back! The second series of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries builds on the meticulously constructed world of series one as it follows the independent, glamorous and unflappable leading lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis). This lush take on the traditional crime drama explores the fascinating and varied sub cultures of 1920s ‘between-the-wars’ Melbourne.

Charlotte Gray

2002 - Completed

CHARLOTTE GRAY is a moving story set in Vichy, France, during the Nazi occupation. It centres on a young girl who parachutes into France to help the Resistance and to search for her English lover, a pilot shot down over enemy territory. During her time there Charlotte becomes close to two Jewish children whom she tries to protect from Nazi persecution. When it is time for her to return home, Charlotte realises that her love of France and its people has become more important than anything else, including the man she thought she loved.

Cloudstreet

2010 - Completed

Adapted from the Tim Winton novel. From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series 2

2013 - Completed

MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES SERIES 2 is a 13 x 1-hour murder mystery series based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood.The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is back! The second series of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries builds on the meticulously constructed world of series one as it follows the independent, glamorous and unflappable leading lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis). This lush take on the traditional crime drama explores the fascinating and varied sub cultures of 1920s ‘between-the-wars’ Melbourne.

My Place

2011 - Completed

MY PLACE is the story of one spot in Australia, told by the children who live there over 260 years.

Mystery Of A Hansom Cab

2012 - Completed

Two men get into a hansom cab one murky night in Melbourne. They’re driven through the city where one man gets out. The other rides on to St Kilda. There, the driver finds the second man murdered…

Ned Kelly

2003 - Completed

The true story of Ned Kelly, a Jesse James-like gangster from Australia, who carried out a series of robberies with his gang of outlaws from 1878-80. Adapted from Robert Drewe's novel 'Our Sunshine'.

Oscar and Lucinda

1998 - Completed

A story about fate, love, gambling and faith - based on Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel.

Parer's War

2013 - Completed

PARER'S WAR is the story of World War II frontline cameraman Damien Parer and his desperate efforts to reveal the savage truth of battle and the brutal truth of the heart

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975 - Completed

On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 at Appleyard College, an exclusive ladies academy, a party of schoolgirls prepares for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Some of them are never to return.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002 - Completed

Based on the book 'Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence', this is the true story of three Aboriginal girls who were forcibly removed from their parents in North West Australia to the notorious Moore River Settlement 1,600 kilometres south and their extraordinary journey back home.

Romulus, My Father

2007 - Completed

ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

The Beautiful Lie

2015 - Completed

THE BEAUTIFUL LIE is a grand, complex love story. It’s also an engaging, contemporary re-imagining of the greatest tragic romance of all time, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. But THE BEAUTIFUL LIE is more than a great love story. It’s a sprawling saga of adultery, scandal, manners and mayhem – about the fates of three enmeshed families across three generations.

The Dressmaker

2015 - Completed

Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, THE DRESSMAKER is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage, a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past. Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly and unexpectedly fall in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in so doing gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

The Eye Of The Storm

2011 - Completed

Based on the novel by Nobel Prize–winning author, Patrick White, THE EYE OF THE STORM is a savage exploration of family relationships – and the sharp undercurrents of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, which define them.

The Great Gatsby

2013 - Completed

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke

2014 - Completed

The story of an unsung Australian genius whose inventions, 50 years ahead of their time, could now revolutionise the modern world. Unaccountably, these brilliant tools had all but disappeared until a recent discovery brought some of them to light. Henry Hoke was an Australian inventor whose many astonishing achievements have never received acknowledgment, but as climate change forces us to reinvent our world, Henry's time has finally arrived.

The Railway Man

2013 - Completed

An extraordinary true story of heroism, inhumanity and the redeeming power of love based on Eric Lomax’s best-selling account of confronting his WWII torturer 30 years on, starring Oscar®-award winning actor Colin Firth.

An Indecent Obsession

1985 - Completed

At the end of World War II, Sister Honour Langtry, an intelligent, sensitive, young woman, is in charge of a military ward for psychiatric patients. Her sexual attraction to a new patient sparks conflict in the ward. Based on the novel by Colleen McCullough.

The Children of the Silk Road

2008 - Completed

A young British journalist saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Faced with advancing Japanese troops, he leads the 60 children on a thousand mile trek across China to a safe haven.

The Secret River

2015 - Completed

In 1810, emancipated English convict William Thornhill stakes a claim on 100 acres of land on the remote Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, only to find that a clan of Aboriginal people also lay claim to the land, as they have done since time immemorial.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series 2

Charlotte Gray

Cloudstreet

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series 2

My Place

Mystery Of A Hansom Cab

Ned Kelly

Oscar and Lucinda

Parer's War

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Romulus, My Father

The Beautiful Lie

The Dressmaker

The Eye Of The Storm

The Great Gatsby

The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke

The Railway Man

An Indecent Obsession

The Children of the Silk Road

The Secret River