Based on the celebrated novel by Kenneth Cook, the film Wake in Fright was critically acclaimed on its release, and is considered one of the best films produced in Australia, influencing recent films such as Wolf Creek. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 and again on re-release in 2009 as a Classic.

Tina Kaufman explores the this great work and what it portrays about Australian culture. Co-published along with the National Film and Sound Archive this is the 10th title in the Australian Screen Classics series.

After the success of his version of Don Carlos, starring Derek Jacobi,   Mike Poulton turns to Schiller’s other great tragic hero. Wallenstein was commander-in-chief of the Hapsburg army during the Thirty Years War (1618-48), but his ambition brought him into fatal
conflict with his monarch, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II.