Australia

2008

Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis, David Wenham, Bryan Brown

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 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.