Tom Cowan Movies

Solarmax is a 40-minute giant-screen documentary that tells the story of humankind's struggle to understand the sun. The film will take audiences on...

After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.

When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They...

When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough...

A 1979 documentary on Java and Bali, written and directed by Phillip Noyce. The end credits say this film was produced for QANTAS Airways, which...

Nine women convicts escape from a prison hell-hole and dare to create a savage world free of man.

This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film...

Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.

In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to...

From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions of years ago, Wild Australia is a stunning look...

The story of three horses who were all born on the same night but their lives take very different paths.

This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.

Two young Australian filmmakers meet in London and return home with dreams of making films that reflect their Australian ideals. A film about dreams...

Four young heroin addicts scour the streets of Melbourne in search of some good-quality narcotics – or as they call it, 'pure shit’. In...

Antigone arrives in Sydney from Greece to have an arranged marriage with Telis, but is rejected by him as he expected a younger woman. Telis's older...

While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would become his wife. He and Alison are devoted to the...

A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged...

Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.

A trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied...