Overview

• Arte schedules the 50-minute documentary “Action, Sand und Endzeit: Die Mad-Max-Saga” for June 29 at 22:40 CEST.
• Julien Dupuy’s featurette traces George Miller and Byron Kennedy’s jump from medical fieldwork to staging the 1979 low-budget Mad Max shoot.
• The documentary highlights their months in ambulance service to research authentic crash and combat scenes for the original film.
• It situates the original trilogy’s conclusion after 1985 and Miller’s detour into films like Lorenzo’s Oil and Happy Feet before the Fury Road revival in 2015.
• Running at just under an hour, the film offers an engaging overview rather than a deep analytical study, aiming to reignite interest in all five franchise installments.