Actor David Gulpilil (1953)

Baz Luhrmann’s epic adventure drama, Australia (2008), follows Lady Sarah Ashley as she travels to her husband’s faltering cattle station, Faraway Downs. It is 1939, just before the start of World War II, and Lady Sarah hopes to make her husband sell the station and save their marriage. However, upon arriving in Australia from England, she learns that her husband has been murdered by an Aboriginal elder known as ‘King George’. The vast Faraway Downs spans across Western Australia and the Northern Territory, reaching all the way to the Timor Sea. In order to secure control of the station for ...

The action comedy film, Crocodile Dundee (1986), takes place in both the Australian Outback and New York City. Sue Charlton, a feature writer for her father’s newspaper Newsday, is dating the editor Richard Mason. She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small township in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. ‘Crocodile’ Dundee – a bushman who allegedly lost half his leg to a saltwater crocodile before making an incredible journey to safety. However, upon arriving in Walkabout Creek, Sue is unable to find Dundee and instead spends the evening at the local pub with his business partner Walter ‘Wally’ Reilly. When Dundee ...