40,000 Years of Dreaming

''40,000 Years of Dreaming'' (''White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema'') is an hour-long documentary film presented by George Miller (filmmaker), 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 (franchise), ''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 Australians, Aboriginal Australian groups. Miller also places Australian cinema in the context of Joseph Campbell'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 A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, feature. It has occasionally been aired on television.

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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