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1) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
2) Mental
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Jack Irish is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1960s, four orphan boys go for a holiday by the sea on the South Australian coast. Since they share the same birth month, the orphanage calls them December boys. But these teens--Maps, Spit, Spark and Misty--have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family, they form their own familial bonds. Then the unexpected news comes that a young couple may adopt one of them, and the long-time pals suddenly share something else: a...
Publisher
Bbc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake and his housekeeper and confidant Jean Beazley have returned to Ballarat, ready to finally pursue their romantic feelings towards one another. But their arrival coincides with the attack on someone extremely close to them, creating a life-threatening situation that will shake them both to their very core.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. His co-conspirator Lawson has been fired from Ballarat, his emotional embrace with Jean has changed life in the house and a new arrival leaves his tenure under threat. But that's the least of his troubles when he uncovers a dark story behind his mother's death. In this eight-part series return, the wonderfully maverick Doctor Blake is pushed to his limits to find the truth behind a range of intriguing murders...
11) The thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a priest does not return the affections of the owner of a large sheep ranch, she vows to influence him, even from the grave.
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla," this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
13) The last wave
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
14) The road warrior
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Max is a loner who drives the roads of the Australian outback on an unending search for gasoline. Fighting against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own safety, Humphreys reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to a corrupt system and an extraordinary...
17) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily.
Publisher
distributed by KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Claire and Tess, two sisters who were separated as children, are reunited when they inherit Drover's Run, a large Australian cattle property passed down for generations. Together they assemble an all-female workforce and face the challenges of the land.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, follows the aftermath of the disappearance of three students and a young teacher from an all-girls school while on a school picnic.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Dr. Lucian Blake returns to his Australian hometown to continue his late father's medical practice, but it is his additional responsibility as the town's chief medical officer that leads him to investigating cases of suspicious death.
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