Where the Green Ants Dream is a 1984 English-language West German film directed and co-written by Werner Herzog, made in Australia. Based on a true story about Indigenous land rights in Australia, but slated as a mixture of fact and fiction, it only got a limited release in Australia, where it was not well received by critics; the film fared a bit better in Europe and North America.

Plot

Lance Hackett, a geologist for Ayers Mining Company, has identified a promising location to search for uranium in the Outback near Coober Pedy, South Australia. Explosives are to be used to analyze the "geological substructure of the region", so the local Aboriginal people block the work, as they claim the area is where the green ants dream, and that disturbing the ants will destroy humanity. Hackett finds himself the intermediary between his employer and the tribe, and becomes increasingly sympathetic to the indigenous worldview and cause.