40,000 Years of Dreaming 1997
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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."
- Released: 1997-11-10
- Runtime: 67 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Stars: George Miller, Joseph Campbell
- Director: George Miller, Colin MacCabe, Bob Last, Margaret Sixel, Doug Mitchell
