List of films shot in Darwin

Last updated August 28, 2025

The following is a list of films and television shows shot or set in wholly or partly in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Film

Film	Year	References
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	1994
Australia	2008
Balibo	2008
Black Water	2007
Burke & Wills	1985
Crocodile Dundee	1986
Crocodile Dundee II	1988
The Dove	1974
Evil Angels	1988
Jedda	1955
Journey Out of Darkness	1967
Kangaroo Jack	2003
Last Cab to Darwin	2015
Love Me Again	2008
The Man from Hong Kong	1975
Napoleon	1995
The Phantom Stockman	1953
Quigley	1990
Rogue	2007
Samson and Delilah	2009
Ten Canoes	2006
Top End Wedding	2019
Until the End of the World	1991
We of the Never Never	1982
Welcome to Woop Woop	1997
World Safari	1977
Walkabout	1971
Yolngu Boy	2001
Young Einstein	1988

Television

Film	Year	References
8MMM Aboriginal Radio	2015
Alice to Nowhere	1986
The Alice	2005
Barrumbi Kids	2022
Bush Mechanics	2001
Double Trouble	2008
Essington	1974
First Contact	2014
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback	2007
Keeping up with the Joneses	2010
The Last Frontier	1986
Little J & Big Cuz	2017
MaveriX	2022
Outback Wildlife Rescue	2008
Outback Wrangler	2011
The Pacific	2011
Pine Gap	2010
Robbie Hood	2019
Soldier Soldier	1991
Territory	2024
Territory Cops	2012
Top End Bub	2025
True Colours	2022
Yamba's Playtime	1995

References

Adamson, Judith. A Film Australia miscellany. Lindfield, N.S.W. : Film Australia, 1991.
Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Dawson, Jonathan, and Bruce Molloy, eds. Queensland Images in Film and Television. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka, eds. The Screening of Australia, Volume 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry. Sydney: Currency Press, 1987.
— — — . The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988.
Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985.
Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Film: 1978 – 1994. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553777-7
Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-550784-3
McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-553797-1
Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia : government film since 1945. Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. ISBN 0-86819-292-9.
Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5459-7
O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1926. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1970.
— — — . History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981.
Ryan, Mark, David (2009),'Whither Culture? Australian Horror Films and the Limitations of Cultural Policy', Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 133, pp. 43-55.
Stratton, David. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry. Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1990. 465p. ISBN 0-7329-0250-9
Verhoeven, Deb. Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. ISBN 0-522-85239-4
— — — ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-876310-00-6

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