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1) The shiralee
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fiercely independent man reluctantly takes his daughter on the road with him to the Australian outback while he looks for work.
2) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
4) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two estranged brothers raising separate flocks of sheep have to set aside their differences and reunite when the prize ram of one of them is diagnosed with a lethal disease and authorities order a purge of every sheep in the area.
Publisher
Infinity Media Holdings Ltd
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lance Hackett is a sympathetic geologist working in Australia for an uranium mining company who must confront the passive resistance of the aborigine tribes. The spot where the deposits are the richest is considered sacred ground. For the aborigine people, the place where the deposits lay is considered the place "where the green ants dream", for them this place is considered the origin of all life. In the clash between white imperialism and a more...
6) Mystery road
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Australian indigenous detective returns home to the outback to solve the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found outside of town.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He's also a Muslim, in a post-9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. He's a good husband and father and a dedicated cop with one main problem on the job: Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley. Crowley's an old school policeman for whom rules and regulations play a poor second to getting results.
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce reprises his iconic role as Jack Irish, former criminal lawyer, and part-time debt collector, with a penchant for getting wrapped up in things he shouldn2t. The long-suppressed trauma of Isabel Irish2s brutal and random murder by Jack's former client Wayne Milovich which launched the first Jack Irish installment, Bad Debts rears its ugly head when Jack discovers there was more to those fateful events all those years ago....
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay Swan in this multi-award-winning mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (321 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A penetrating reimagining of the iconic and timeless Australian novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock depicts the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event's far-reaching impact on the students, families, and staff of Appleyard College and on the nearby township. Theories abound, long-held secrets are exposed, and paranoia...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 463 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay Swan in this mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
17) Rake: Series 4
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 461 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Smart but self-destructive lawyer Cleaver Greene faces new challenges to his career and his personal life as the hit Australian comedy drama returns. Last seen dangling from a runway hot air balloon, Cleaver crashes into the window of wanted criminal Edgar Thompson. Forced out of hiding, Edgar stirs up a huge corruption scandal involving most of the politicians in Sydney, and vows revenge on Clever.
18) Rake: Series 3
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cleaver languishes in jail, facing the consequences of his crimes and misbehaviors, while he awaits the outcome of his appeal. When the conviction is quashed at last, he discovers his world has grown even more chaotic in his absence. The proliferation of Royal Commissions, inquiries and corruption trials requires so many barristers, even Cleaver can find work. Of course, Cleaver being Cleaver, he finds himself at the heart of a billion dollar criminal,...
19) Rake: Series 5
Author
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (448 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A criminal defense lawyer takes on challenging cases which no one else wants.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, this film tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between a father and a son.
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