''40,000 Years of Dreaming'' (''White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema'') is an hour-long documentary film presented by George Miller and produced by the British Film Institute, as part of its ''Century of Cinema'' series. The film is mainly a collage of various pieces of Australian film, past and present, including Miller's own ''Mad Max'' series. Miller focuses primarily on Australian cinema as a vessel of public Dreaming, creating a link between contemporary Australian cinema and the Dreamtime lores from a variety of Aboriginal Australian groups. Miller also places Australian cinema in the context of

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's monomyth concept. It has been out of print since its release in 1997, along with several of the other films in the ''Century of Cinema'' series, apart from Martin Scorsese's feature. It has occasionally been aired on television.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:40000 Years Of Dreaming 1997 films Films directed by George Miller British documentary films History of film 1990s English-language films 1997 documentary films Documentary films about the cinema of Australia 1990s British films