List of Australian films: 1890s-1930s
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A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1890s to the end of the 1930s, in the List of Australian films.
For an A-Z list of Australian films see Category:Australian films
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[edit] Pre 1910s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1896 | ||||
| The Melbourne Cup | ? | Henry Walter Barnett, Lord Brassey | Sport documentary | 24 Nov. IMDb |
| Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly | Marius Sestier | Short documentary | 24 Nov. IMDb | |
| 1898 | ||||
| Social Salvation | Herbert Booth | Short | 1 July IMDb | |
| 1900 | ||||
| Soldiers of the Cross | Herbert Booth, Joseph Perry | Beatrice Day, Harold Graham | Biography drama | 13 Sep. IMDb |
| 1906 | ||||
| The Story of the Kelly Gang | Charles Tait | Elizabeth Tait, John Tait | Biography drama | 26 Dec. Considered the first full-length feature film ever made IMDb |
| 1907 | ||||
| Eureka Stockade | Arthur Cornwall, George Cornwell | Short | 19 Oct. IMDb | |
| Robbery Under Arms | Charles MacMahon | Jim Gérald, George Merriman, Lance Vane | Drama | 2 Nov. - Based on novel IMDb |
| 1908 | ||||
| For the Term of His Natural Life | Charles MacMahon | Martyn Keith, Rosie Knight Phillips | Short | 8 Aug. IMDb |
[edit] 1910s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1910 | ||||
| Moonlite (a.k.a. Captain Moonlite) |
John Gavin | John Gavin, H.A. Forsyth, Ruby Butler | Short | 31 Dec. IMDb |
| The Squatter's Daughter (a.k.a. The Land of the Wattle) |
Bert Bailey | Olive Wilton, Bert Bailey, Edmund Duggan | 4 Aug. - Based on play IMDb | |
| Thunderbolt | John Gavin | John Gavin, Ruby Butler, H.A. Forsyth | Short | 12 Nov. IMDb |
| 1911 | ||||
| All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim | Franklyn Barrett | Short | IMDb | |
| The Assigned Servant | John Gavin | Short | IMDb | |
| Assigned to His Wife | John Gavin | Drama | 9 Oct. IMDb | |
| Attack on the Gold Escort | ? | Action drama | 26 June IMDb | |
| The Bells | W. J. Lincoln | 7 Oct. IMDb | ||
| Ben Hall and His Gang | John Gavin | Short | IMDb | |
| Bushranger's Ransom, or A Ride for Life | E.J. Cole | 28 Mar. IMDb | ||
| Called Back | W. J. Lincoln | Arthur Styan | Short | 15 Apr. IMDb |
| Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo | 20 Nov. IMDb | |||
| Captain Midnight, the Bush King | Alfred Rolfe | Alfred Rolfe, Lily Dampier | Drama | 9 Feb. IMDb |
| Captain Starlight (a.k.a. Gentleman of the Road) |
Alfred Rolfe | Lily Dampier, Lottie Lyell, Augustus Neville, Alfred Rolfe | 16 Mar. - Based on novel IMDb | |
| The Colleen Bawn | 25 Sep. IMDb | |||
| The Cup Winner | 7 Nov. IMDb | |||
| Dan Morgan | ? | Drama | 22 May IMDb | |
| The Double Event | 21 Oct. IMDb | |||
| The Drover's Sweetheart | John Gavin | John Gavin | Drama / Thriller | 9 May IMDb |
| The Fatal Wedding | Raymond Longford | 24 Apr. IMDb | ||
| Five of Hearts, or Buffalo Bill's Love Story | E.J. Cole | E.J. Cole | 10 May IMDb | |
| Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road | John Gavin | John Gavin | 27 Feb. IMDb | |
| The Golden West | George Young | 27 Mar. IMDb | ||
| In the Nick of Time | Alfred Rolfe | Drama | 4 Sep. IMDb | |
| It Is Never Too Late to Mend | W. J. Lincoln | Stanley Walpole | Drama | 7 Jan. (produced by J. and N. Tait) IMDb |
| The Lady Outlaw | Alfred Rolfe | Charles Villiers | Drama | 28 Aug. IMDb |
| The Life of Rufus Dawes | Alfred Rolfe | Lily Dampier, Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell | 19 June - Based on novel IMDb | |
| The Lost Chord | W. J. Lincoln | Drama | 13 May IMDb | |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp | W. J. Lincoln | John Cosgrove | Western | 25 Mar. IMDb |
| Mates of the Murrumbidgee | Alfred Rolfe | Drama | 4 Sep. IMDb | |
| The Miner's Curse | 7 Dec. IMDb | |||
| The Miner's Daughter | ? | Drama | 28 June IMDb | |
| Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear | Alfred Rolfe | Ethel Phillips, Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole | 31 July IMDb | |
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | W. J. Lincoln | 4 Mar. - Based on novel IMDb | ||
| One Hundred Years Ago | Gaston Mervale | Drama / Thriller | 8 May IMDb | |
| Only a Factory Girl | ? | Drama | 14 Aug. IMDb | |
| The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole | Raymond Longford | 7 Aug. IMDb | ||
| Sentenced for Life | E.J. Cole | 10 June IMDb | ||
| The Squatter and the Clown | ? | Drama | 16 Aug. IMDb | |
| The Squatter's Son | E.J. Cole | 22 Apr. IMDb | ||
| The Sundowner | E.J. Cole | Vera Remée, Frank Mills | 21 Aug. IMDb | |
| Sweet Nell of Old Drury | 2 Dec. IMDb | |||
| A Tale of the Australian Bush (a.k.a. Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger) |
3 Oct. IMDb | |||
| Three Strings to Her Bow | George Young (film director)George Young | Comedy | 10 Apr. IMDb | |
| A Ticket in Tatts | Gaston Mervale | A.J. Patrick, Alf Scarlett | Comedy | 19 June IMDb |
| Way Outback | Alfred Rolfe | Romance | 25 Sep. IMDb | |
| What Women Suffer | Alfred Rolfe | Drama / Thriller | 2 Oct. IMDb | |
| 1912 | ||||
| Angel of His Dreams | George Marlow | Drama | IMDb | |
| Breaking the News | ||||
| The Bushman's Bride | ||||
| Call of the Bush | ||||
| The Cheat | ||||
| Conn, the Shaughraun | ||||
| Cooee and the Echo | ||||
| Crime and the Criminal | ||||
| A Daughter of Australia | ||||
| Do Men Love Women? | ||||
| The Eleventh Hour | ||||
| Gambler's Gold | ||||
| Hands Across the Sea | ||||
| King of the Coiners | ||||
| The Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang | ||||
| The Love Tyrant | ||||
| The Midnight Wedding | ||||
| The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush | ||||
| The Mystery of the Black Pearl | ||||
| The Octoroon | ||||
| Percy Gets a Job | ||||
| Rip Van Winkle | ||||
| A Silent Witness | ||||
| The Sin of a Woman | ||||
| The Strangler's Grip | ||||
| Strike | ||||
| The Ticket of Leave Man | ||||
| The Tide of Death | ||||
| Whose Was the Hand? | Alfred Rolfe | Short/Drama/Thiller | IMDb | |
| Won on the Post | ||||
| The Wreck of the Dunbar or The Yeoman's Wedding | ||||
| 1913 | ||||
| Australia Calls | Raymond Longford | IMDb | ||
| A Blue Gum Romance | Franklyn Barrett | Drama / Thriller | IMDb | |
| The Bondage of the Bush | Charles Woods | Short/ Drama /Thriller | IMDb | |
| The Crisis | ||||
| Dr. Mawson in the Antarctic | ||||
| The Life of a Jackeroo | ||||
| A Melbourne Mystery | ||||
| Moondyne | ||||
| 'Neath Austral Skies | ||||
| Pommy Arrives in Australia | ||||
| The Remittance Man | ||||
| The Reprieve | ||||
| The Road to Ruin | ||||
| Sea Dogs of Australia | ||||
| The Sick Stockrider | ||||
| Transported | ||||
| 1914 | ||||
| The Day | ||||
| A Long, Long Way to Tipperary | ||||
| The Silence of Dean Maitland | ||||
| The Swagman's Story | ||||
| Taking His Chance | ||||
| Trooper Campbell | ||||
| 1915 | ||||
| For Australia | ||||
| The Hero of the Dardanelles | ||||
| How We Beat the Emden | ||||
| Into Australia's Unknown | ||||
| The Loyal Rebel | ||||
| Ma Hoggan's New Boarder | ||||
| My Partner | ||||
| The Rebel | ||||
| The Shepherd of the Southern Cross | ||||
| The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate | ||||
| We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own | IMDb | |||
| Within Our Gates | ||||
| 1916 | ||||
| Charlie at the Sydney Show | ||||
| Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford | ||||
| If the Huns Came to Melbourne | ||||
| In the Last Stride | ||||
| An Interrupted Divorce | ||||
| The Joan of Arc of Loos | ||||
| The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon | ||||
| A Maori Maid's Love | ||||
| The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell | ||||
| Murphy of Anzac | ||||
| Nurse Cavell | ||||
| Officer 666 | ||||
| The Pioneers | ||||
| La Revanche | ||||
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | ||||
| Within the Law | ||||
| The Woman in the Case | ||||
| 1917 | ||||
| Australia's Peril | Franklyn Barrett | Maie Baird, Roland Conway, John De Lacey | War | 19 May IMDb |
| The Church and the Woman | Raymond Longford | George K. Chesterton Bonar, Nada Conrade, Boyd Irwin | Drama | 13 Oct. IMDb |
| The Hayseeds Come to Sydney (a. k. a. The Hayseeds Come to Town) |
Beaumont Smith | Tal Ordell, Fred MacDonald, Harry McDonna | 9 July IMDb | |
| The Hayseeds' Backblocks Show | ||||
| The Monk and the Woman | ||||
| The Murder of Captain Fryatt | John Gavin | Harrington Reynolds, John Gavin, Olive Proctor | Short | 26 Feb. IMDb |
| Our Friends the Hayseeds (a. k. a. The Hayseeds) |
Beaumont Smith | Roy Redgrave, Walter Cornock | 19 Mar. IMDb | |
| Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague | J.E. Mathews | Cyril Mackay, Ida Gresham, Marie D'Alton | Drama | 3 Jan. IMDb |
| 1918 | ||||
| 500 Pounds Reward | ||||
| Algie's Romance | Leonard Doogood | Leonard Doogood | Comedy | IMDb |
| A Coo-ee from Home | ||||
| Cupid Camouflaged | ||||
| The Enemy Within | ||||
| The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup | ||||
| His Convict Bride | ||||
| His Only Chance | ||||
| Just Peggy | ||||
| The Laugh on Dad | ||||
| The Lure of the Bush | ||||
| A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 | ||||
| Satan in Sydney | ||||
| Scars of Love | ||||
| The Waybacks | Arthur W. Sterry | IMDb | ||
| What Happened to Jean | Herbert Walsh | Drama / Thriller | IMDb | |
| The Woman Suffers | ||||
| Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers | Charles Byers Coates | Drama | IMDb | |
| 1919 | ||||
| Australia's Own | J.E. Ward | Garry Gordon, Nellie Romer | Action / Adventure | 20 Jan. IMDb |
| Australians in Palestine | Frank Hurley | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Barry Butts In | Beaumont Smith | Barry Lupino, John Cosgrove, Agnes Dobson | 9 Aug. IMDb | |
| Desert Gold | Beaumont Smith | Bryce Rowe, Marie Ney, John Cosgrove | 24 Mar. IMDb | |
| Does the Jazz Lead to Destruction? | Fred Ward | Ethel Bennetto, George Irving | Comedy | 4 Aug. IMDb |
| The Face at the Window | ||||
| The Sentimental Bloke | Raymond Longford | Arthur Tauchert, Lottie Lyell, Gilbert Emery | Drama / Romance | 4 Oct. IMDb |
| South | ||||
| Struck Oil | Franklyn Barrett | Harry Roberts, Percy Walshe | Drama | 20 Oct. IMDb |
| Why Jessie Learned to Jazz | Fred Ward | Olga Willard | Short | 4 Aug. IMDb |
[edit] 1920s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1920 | ||||
| The Breaking of the Drought | ||||
| Ginger Mick | ||||
| The Hordern Mystery | ||||
| The Kelly Gang | ||||
| The Man from Kangaroo | ||||
| The Man from Snowy River | ||||
| On Our Selection | ||||
| Robbery Under Arms | ||||
| The Shadow of Lightning Ridge | ||||
| 1921 | ||||
| The Betrayer | Beaumont Smith | Drama | IMDb | |
| The Blue Mountains Mystery | Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell | Mystery | IMDb | |
| The Gentleman Bushranger | ||||
| A Girl of the Bush | ||||
| The Guyra Ghost Mystery | ||||
| Jasamine Freckel's Love Affair | ||||
| Know Thy Child | ||||
| Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang | ||||
| Mated in the Wilds | ||||
| Pearls and Savages | ||||
| Possum Paddock | ||||
| Retribution | ||||
| The Ross Smith Flight | ||||
| Rudd's New Selection | ||||
| Silks and Saddles | ||||
| While the Billy Boils | Beaumont Smith | IMDb | ||
| 1922 | ||||
| A Daughter of Australia | ||||
| Circumstance | ||||
| East Lynne | ||||
| The Lust for Gold | ||||
| A Rough Passage | ||||
| Sunshine Sally | ||||
| The Tale of a Shirt | ||||
| The Triumph of Love | ||||
| Why Men Go Wrong | ? | Short/Comedy | IMDb | |
| 1923 | ||||
| The Dingo | ||||
| The Dinkum Bloke | ||||
| Prehistoric Hayseeds | ||||
| Should a Doctor Tell? | ||||
| Townies and Hayseeds | ||||
| The Twins | ||||
| When the Kellys Were Out | Harry Southwell | Drama/Thriller | IMDb | |
| With the Headhunters in Papua | ||||
| 1924 | ||||
| Daughter of the East | ||||
| David | ||||
| The Digger Earl | ||||
| Dope | ||||
| Fisher's Ghost | ||||
| How McDougall Topped the Score | ||||
| Hullo Marmaduke | ||||
| Joe | ||||
| The Price | ||||
| The Rev. Dell's Secret | ||||
| 1925 | ||||
| The Adventures of Algy | Beaumont Smith | Comedy/Drama | IMDb | |
| Annette Kellerman Performing Water Ballet | Short/Documentary | IMDb | ||
| Around the Boree Log | Phil Walsh | IMDb | ||
| The Bushwhackers | ||||
| Jewelled Nights | ||||
| Le Juif polonais | ||||
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | ||||
| Painted Daughters | ||||
| The Rancher's Daughter | ||||
| Those Terrible Twins | ||||
| 1926 | ||||
| Greenhide | ||||
| Hills of Hate | ||||
| Jungle Woman | ||||
| The Moth of Moonbi | ||||
| Peter Vernon's Silence | ||||
| The Pioneers | ||||
| The Sealed Room | ||||
| Should a Girl Propose? | ||||
| Sydney's Darlings | ||||
| Tall Timber | ||||
| The Tenth Straw | ||||
| Those Who Love | ||||
| 1927 | ||||
| Down Under | ||||
| Environment | ||||
| For the Term of His Natural Life | ||||
| The Kid Stakes | ||||
| The Man Who Forgot | ||||
| The Miner's Daughter | ||||
| The Rushing Tide | ||||
| 1928 | ||||
| The Adorable Outcast | Norman Dawn | IMDb | ||
| The Birth of White Australia | Phil Walsh | IMDb | ||
| Caught in the Net | ||||
| The Devil's Playground | ||||
| The Exploits of the Emden | ||||
| The Far Paradise | ||||
| The Grey Glove | ||||
| The Menace | ||||
| Odds On | ||||
| The Romance of Runnibede | ||||
| The Russell Affair | ||||
| The Shattered Illusion | ||||
| The Spirit of Gallipoli | ||||
| Tropper O'Brien | ||||
| 1929 | ||||
| The Kingdom of Twilight | ||||
[edit] 1930s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1930 | ||||
| The Cheaters | ||||
| Southward Ho with Mawson | ||||
| Tiger Island | ||||
| 1931 | ||||
| A Co-respondent's Course | ||||
| Diggers | ||||
| Haunted Barn | ||||
| Isle of Intrigue | ||||
| Showgirl's Luck | ||||
| Siege of the South | ||||
| Spur of the Moment | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| His Royal Highness | ||||
| On Our Selection | ||||
| The Sentimental Bloke | ||||
| Symphony in Steel | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
| Annette Kellerman Returns to Australia | Short | IMDb | ||
| Diggers in Blighty | ||||
| Harmony Row | ||||
| The Hayseeds | ||||
| In the Wake of the Bounty | ||||
| The Squatter's Daughter | ||||
| Two Minutes Silence | ||||
| Waltzing Matilda | Pat Hanna | Comedy | IMDb | |
| 1934 | ||||
| Cinesound Varieties | ||||
| Clara Gibbings | ||||
| Here Is Paradise | ||||
| The Man They Could Not Hang | ||||
| Secret of the Skies | ||||
| The Silence of Dean Maitland | ||||
| Splendid Fellows | ||||
| The Streets of London | ||||
| Strike Me Lucky | ||||
| A Ticket in Tatts | ||||
| Treasures of Katoomba | ||||
| When the Kellys Rode | Harry Southwell | Drama/Western | IMDb | |
| 1935 | ||||
| The Burgomeister | ||||
| Grandad Rudd | ||||
| Heritage | ||||
| 1936 | ||||
| The Flying Doctor | ||||
| It Isn't Done | ||||
| Orphan of the Wilderness | ||||
| Rangle River | ||||
| Thoroughbred | ||||
| Uncivilised | Charles Chauvel | Adventure | IMDb | |
| White Death | Edwin G. Bowen | Adventure | IMDb | |
| 1937 | ||||
| The Avenger | A.R. Harwood | IMDb | ||
| The Broken Melody | ||||
| Lovers and Luggers | ||||
| Mystery Island | ||||
| A Nation Is Built | ||||
| Phantom Gold | ||||
| 1938 | ||||
| Below the Surface | Rupert Kathner | Drama | IMDb | |
| Dad and Dave Come to Town | ||||
| Let George Do It | ||||
| Show Business | ||||
| Typhoon Treasure | ||||
| 1939 | ||||
| Gone to the Dogs | ||||
| Mr. Chedworth Steps Out | ||||
| Seven Little Australians | ||||
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