First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
Feature film
Defined by length, the first dramatic feature film was the Australian 70-minute film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" (1906). Similarly, the first European feature was the 90-minute film "L'Enfant prodigue" (France, 1907), although that was an unmodified record of a stage play; Europe's first feature adapted directly for the screen, "Les Misérables", came from France in 1909. The first Russian feature was "Defence of Sevastopol" in 1911. Early Italian features were "The Inferno (L'Inferno)" (1911), "Quo Vadis?" (1913), "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1913), and "Cabiria" (1914). The first UK features were the documentary "With Our King and Queen Through India" (1912), filmed in Kinemacolor and "Oliver Twist" (1912). The first American features were adaptations of "Oliver Twist" (1912), "From the Manger to the Cross" (1912), "Cleopatra" (1912), and "Richard III" (1912). The latter starring actor Frederick Warde starred in some of these movie adaptations. The first Asian feature was Japan's "The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara" (1912), the first Indian feature was "Raja Harishchandra" (1913), the first South American feature was Brazil's "O Crime dos Banhados" (1913), and the first African feature was South Africa's "Die Voortrekkers" (1916). 1913 also saw China's first feature film, Zhang Shichuan's "Nan Fu Nan Qi".