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Works explorer

The Homecoming

Australia, 1980
film

A macabre account of an outback bereavement based on Henry Lawson’s “The Bush Undertaker”.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Where dead men lie

Australia, 1972
Similarity: 77%

Bushed

Australia, 1980
Similarity: 75%

The Bushman goes home

Australia, 1947
Similarity: 74%

The Dead heart [Widescreen]

United Kingdom, 2000
Similarity: 73%

The Drover's wife: a short story by Henry Lawson

Australia, 1968
Similarity: 72%

Homecoming

Australia, APR 2010
Similarity: 72%

The Bush myth

Australia, 1982
Similarity: 72%

Vietnam: the long road home

Australia, 1989
Similarity: 71%

Around the boree log (1925)

Australia, 1925
Similarity: 71%

The Drover's wife

Australia, 1985
Similarity: 71%

Blood and ash

Australia, 2000
Similarity: 71%

Australia: beyond the fatal shore [Widescreen]

United Kingdom, 2000
Similarity: 71%

The Road home

Australia, 2003
Similarity: 71%

Return journey: a tribute to Burke and Wills

Australia, 1965
Similarity: 71%

The Drover's wife

Australia, 1985
Similarity: 71%

Summer of the seventeenth doll [discussion]

Australia, 1989
Similarity: 71%

Lost in the bush

Australia, 1973
Similarity: 71%

The Queen Goes West

Australia, 1988
Similarity: 70%
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