Title	Year	Director	Genre	Min
The Comeback	1980	Kit Laughlin	Documentary	78
Wrong Side of the Road	1980	Ned Lander	Documentary, Musical	79
A Personal History of the Australian Surf	1981	Michael Blakemore	Documentary	—
Front Line	1981	David Bradbury	Documentary	56
Storm Riders	1982	—	Documentary, Surf	—
First Contact	1983	Bob Connolly	Documentary	58
Lousy Little Sixpence	1983	Gerald Bostock, Alec Morgan	Documentary	—
Couldn't Be Fairer	1984	Dennis O'Rourke	Documentary	—
Bergen-Belsen zum Beispiel	1985	Jürgen Corleis	Documentary	45
Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age	1985	Dennis O'Rourke	Documentary	85
Hell Fire Jack: The John Curtin Story	1985	—	Documentary	—
Just Australian Trains	1985	Dick Collingridge	Documentary	—
Steam Trains of Australia	1985	—	Documentary	—
The Occult Experience	1985	Frank Heimans	Documentary	90
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back	1985	Alan Lowery	Documentary	—
Chile: When Will It End?	1986	David Bradbury	Documentary	57
Paradise Camp	1986	Frank Heimans	Documentary	—
Resan	1987	Peter Watkins	Documentary	15
Australia Daze	1988	Pat Fiske	Documentary	—
Cannibal Tours	1988	Dennis O'Rourke	Documentary	70
Sportz Crazy	1988	—	Documentary	—
The Flying Scotsman Down Under	1989	—	Documentary	—

Documentary films of the 1980s

Films per year