Simon Wincer

The big challenge in Spring 2001 will be not how American TV contestants survive the Australian Outback, but how a simple Aussie survives the City of Angels. Wrestling crocodiles is nothing compared to swimming with sharks in Los Angeles. (Paramount Pictures)

A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing. (imdb)

Disney's first dramatic adventure made expressly for the Giant Screen; this is a prequel to 1979's "The Black Stallion." The film follows the adventures of young girl named Neera who finds herself alone in the desert when a wild stallion comes to her aid. (Disney)

When a boy learns that a young orca whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.

To keep the loyalty of a native village during the Vietnam war, a US Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant. (imdb)

A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home... (imdb)

Rafe Covington promises a dying friend that he'll watch over the man's wife and ranch after he's gone. When Rafe gets to his friend's ranch, he finds that Barkow, the local power in town, wants not only the ranch but the woman, too, and hires a gang of gunfighters to make sure he gets both.

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. (imdb)

Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist. (imdb)

The tuff biker Harley and his no less tuff Cowboy friend Marlboro learn that an old friend of them will loose his bar, because a bank wants to build a new complex there and demands 2.5 million dollars for a new contract in advance. (imdb)

The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.

Sharpshooter Matt Quigley (Selleck) is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance... (imdb)

August, 1917. Using the name 'Henri Defense', 17 year old Indiana Jones has enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out during combat in Flanders, Corporal 'Defense' is left in charge of what's left of the 9th Belgian Infantry. They are assigned to the French 14th Company and dispatched into the Battle of the Somme... (imdb)

In a war-torn country, Indiana Jones finds a wellspring of hope in the presence of one remarkable man. On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary, forced to fight his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across country.

Indiana, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort. (IMDB)

T.E. Lawrence suggests his old friend and pen-pal Indiana Jones (aka Henri Defense) for an undercover mission in Gaza, where Indy befriends some members of the Australian Lighthorseman Regiment. The British plan to attack Beersheba but have to cross a grueling desert to do so. To get into Beersheba first, Indy poses as an Arab trader and is accompanied by a 'belly dancer' named Maya.

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. (imdb)

Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans. (imdb)

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritanical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van. (imdb)

The true story of a Australian racehorse that becomes a champion with the help of a local stableboy. (imdb)

The governor of Texas sends out a group of Texas Rangers to pursuit a celebrated Comanche horse thief. The leader of the Rangers is captured during the pursuit. The other Rangers decide to return to Austin after they hear it has been raided.

This taut made-for-television adventure is based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia. His dishonest clients exploit this fact and do all they can to hold him captive in their country, thereby forcing the American to take desperate measures to escape. (allmovie.com)

Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's adjustment to a new family. (imdb)

Mrs. Murphy (tabby cat) and Tucker (welsh corgi) have to figure out a local murder before their owner, Harry, gets in over her head.

With a knack for business and a keen sense for entertainment, he was forever in search of the next big attraction to amuse and mystify his audience. With an adoring wife by his side offering a never ending source of support and inspiration, P.T. Barnum would produce the greatest show on earth. (cduniverse.com)

Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. (imdb)

A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times. (imdb)

The adventures of the archaeological treasure hunter in his youth. (imdb)

The true story of the 2002 Melbourne Cup horse race, brotherly love and the triumph of the human spirit.

Mary Mulvane, an 18 year old Irish girl, is transported to New South Wales for seven years for doing little else than protecting her own property. She must endure the horror of transport to Australia, and years of anxiety as a convict. Mary, her friends and her family fight out their battle against a lively historical backdrop - Irelands 1798 Rebellion. Australia's Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804 and the 1808 Rum Rebellion. (imdb)