Peter Weir
1) Green card
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience. She gets the apartment of her dreams and he gets a green card to live in the U.S. The two encounter difficulties, and even worse, they just might be falling in love.
2) Witness
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five part documentary and much more.
3) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey.
4) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
6) Fearless
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Formats
Description
The year is 1805 and Europe has fallen to Napoleon. The Royal Navy is the only thing standing in his way to total victory. Off the coast of South America, a new conflict is brewing. Captain Jack 'Lucky Jack' Aubrey and his Man-of-War HMS Surprise is under orders to sink or capture the French privateer Acheron, which has been deployed to the region. After seven weeks of uneventful sailing, the Acheron strikes first, all but crippling the Surprise in...
11) The Truman show
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, begins to doubt reality when he realizes that his life is a TV program. Nominated for six Golden Globes.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.