The Big Wet

The Big Wet

Explore the top of Down Under.

1993 · 55 min · Documentary

Powerful electric storms rip through an arid landscape. Salt water crocodiles occupy territories where tourists camped just weeks earlier. Cyclones devastate whole cities. Roads turn to rivers, ponds to lakes. The tropical monsoon season in the Kakadu region of Australia unleashes dynamic changes on the animals and the environment. For the first time on film, follow the natural rhythms of wet and dry, fire and rain, growth and decline in... THE BIG WET.

Directed by Jeremy Hogarth · Written by Jonathan Holmes

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