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The film begins in 2001, when backpackers Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio were travelling around the outback in Australia in a camper van.On the Stuart Highway, near Barrow Creek, in the Northern Territory, they were waved down by Bradley John Murdoch, who was later convicted of assaulting Lees and murdering Falconio.
The Last Full Measure (2019) – war drama film that tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men and flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the war to aide downed soldiers and pilots [117] [118]
On November 30, 2020, Netflix announced that the animated film Back to the Outback would make its world debut in late 2021. [9] [10] However, in October 2021, it was announced that the film would premiere worldwide on December 10, 2021. [11] It also had a limited theatrical release on December 3, prior to its streaming release on Netflix. [12]
Films set in the Outback, the vast, remote interior of Australia. "The Outback" is more remote than those areas named " the bush ", which include any location outside the main urban areas .. Subcategories
3 Days in Quiberon (German: v3 Tage in Quiberon) (2018) – German-Austrian-French drama film focusing on three days during the last year of Romy Schneider's life [1]; 12 Strong (2018) – action war drama film based on the story of U.S. 5th Special Forces Group who were sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif [2]
Its plot concerns three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a serial killer, in the Australian outback. The film was ambiguously marketed as being "based on true events", while its plot bore elements reminiscent of the real-life murders of backpackers by Ivan Milat in the 1990s and Bradley ...
The Oscar-nominated director wanted to tackle the haunting true story of Latoya Ammons, who claimed her children had been victimized by demons, after finishing his 2009 breakthrough “Precious ...
Internationally, the film opened commercially in the United Kingdom on 29 October 1971 and the United States on 20 February 1972. [6] When the film was re-released in Australia on 25 June 2009, it grossed $62,393 in its opening weekend, [24] and eventually earned $321,323. [7] The film made $50,394 during a 2012 re-release in the United States. [8]