26 Films & TV Shows Set In Papua New Guinea
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Die Mรคnner der Emden
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea Pacific Ocean The 1910sWhen their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
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Mr. Pip
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1990sWhen they needed hope, he gave them great expectations. โ As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive โPopeyeโ (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matildaโs tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.
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Sanctum
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaThe only way out is down. โ Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's teamโincluding 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)โare forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?
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Sisters of War
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaSisters of War is a World War II memoir that re-creates events in New Britain during the Japanese invasion and occupation. It is a story about the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, especially Sister Berenice Twohill and her working friendship with nursing sister, Lorna Whyte. The Australians pulled out of the mission in Vunapope outside Rabaul, leaving the nurses and wounded who took refuge there. They were captured and about to be executed when Bishop Leo Scharmach MSC bluffed the Japanese by saying that he was the representative of Hitler and his people could not be executed.
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Sun Come Up
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaSun Come Up tells the story of some of the world's first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders. The film follows relocation leader Ursula Rakova and a group of young families as they search for new homes in war torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
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Kokoda
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sA bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
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Godzilla: Final Wars
New York Arizona British Columbia ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture New South Wales ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica Pacific OceanFarewell, Godzilla. โ Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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In a Savage Land
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaTwo anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
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Harry's War
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sA story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that embraces culture, war and death. Two mates โ Harry is a Koori and Mitch a non-Aboriginal Australian โ head off to fight in the jungles of Papua New Guinea during WWII.
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Robinson Crusoe
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 18th CenturyRobinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
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Slave of the Cannibal God
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaWhen the price of lust is death..! โ A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1990s The 1830sCatastrophe 1999 โ Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Tokyo Prefecture ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1970s The 1950s The 1940sA war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
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The Valley
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1970sObscured by clouds โ Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallรฉe": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'obscured by clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'.
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Skullduggery
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaThe Tropi...Was It Human?...Animal?...Or The Living Descendant Of The Missing Link! โ An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
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Born Free
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya Africa - GeneralFrom The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World! โ At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Toyama Prefecture Shiga Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Hyลgo Prefecture ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaGamera burns the streets of Osaka in an instant! Barugon freezes Osaka Castle with a single gust! An underwater clash at Lake Biwa! โ Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
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Seven Women from Hell
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sSeven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sYou'll crack your timbers when you see how the Navy sticks the Army sad sacks with the crumbiest ship afloat! โ Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" โ a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives โ if only they can get there in one piece.
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Walk Into Paradise
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaLast frontier of the real witch doctor! โ Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
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The Rats of Tobruk
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1940s The 1930sThree friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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Marine Raiders
California ๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea ๐ธ๐ง Solomon Islands The 1940sCOURAGE - Cold as the Steel of their Bayonets! ROMANCE - Warm as the Love which Inspires It! ACTION - Shaking the Skies! โ A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
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Jungle Patrol
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea"This is how you go to war..." โ This black and white film was made by the Australian government to show Australia's contribution to the New Guinea campaign, for which they thought there had not been sufficient acknowledgement. Jungle Patrol follows the daily experiences of the soldiers, from their initial deployment in Port Moresby, then flying over the Owen Stanley Ranges on board the troop carrier 'Honeymoon Express', to their slog through jungle and steep terrain battling rain, mosquitoes and mud as they march from the Ramu 'Death' Valley up to rejoin their battalion at an outpost on Shaggy Ridge in the Finisterre Range.
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Kokoda Front Line!
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaThis iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien Parer contains some of the most recognised images of Australian troops in the Second World War.
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Red Morning
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaA captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
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