2011
3h

Summary Throughout the 20th Century the car has been tangled up in the social, political and economic fabric of Australia. It is embedded in our culture and our psyche. View more details

Documentary

2011
3h

Wide Open Road

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jennifer van Heeckeren

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Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 15, 2011

Countries of origin : Australia

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Bombora Film & Music Production Company

Summary Throughout the 20th Century the car has been tangled up in the social, political and economic fabric of Australia. It is embedded in our culture and our psyche. View more details

Documentary

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 15, 2011

Countries of origin : Australia

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Bombora Film & Music Production Company

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Episode 1 • Oct 15, 2011

Here Come the Petrol Heads

Cars united the nation and created some of Australia's first national heroes. Once the US giants General Motors Holden and Ford started manufacturing cars in Australia, and particularly with the arrival of the Holden FX, cars became affordable, gave Australian families a new level of freedom and shaped our cities.

Episode 2 • Oct 29, 2011

Dream Machines

Cars quickly became integral to every aspect of Australian's lives. By the end of the 1950s most parents experienced the world through the windscreen and most kids watched it go by from the back seat upon which many of them were spawned. By the 1960s the baby boomers had their own cars, often mum and dad's hand?me?downs that had been hotted up. They couldn't drive as fast as their hero, racing car champion Jack Brabham, but they felt like they could.

Episode 3 • Oct 29, 2011

Car Wars

The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval in Australia - and it wasn't all peace and love. Inner-city trendies faced off against suburban gangs, Peter Brock and Allan Moffat intensified the rivalry between Holden and Ford, politicians were under siege by car lovers and it was a battle to stay alive on the roads because speed, youth and alcohol is a volatile cocktail.

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