The Overlanders

Year: 1946

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: English

Director: Harry Watt

WesternAdventure

A dramatic epic captures Australia’s vast spirit at the dawn of WWII in the north. As Japanese forces approach, civilians enact a scorched‑earth retreat, burning settlements. Rather than slaughter their cattle, a diverse group drives the herd across the continent, journeying from Wyndham in Western Australia, through the Northern Territory outback, to new grazing lands near Brisbane, Queensland.

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