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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 135 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A three-part series looking at the early years of the film industry and motion pictures in Australia. The fims in the series include: Pictures that moved, the 1896-1920 (History of Australian Cinema), Passionate industry, the 1920-1930 (History of Australian Cinema), and Now you're talking 1930-1940 (History of Australian Cinema). Produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. Producers: Stanley Hawes, Frank Bagnall, Anthony Buckley. Director:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min., 55 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Into the shadows journeys beyond the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Away from the bright lights, the red carpets and paparazzi, an awful truth is discovered. The cinema was once a place where Australian culture thrived: audiences were educated, entertained and inspired by Australian stories, characters and landscapes. But now, alarmingly, out of the {dollar}895.5 million...
3) Irresistible
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sophie Hartley is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her children, her husband, and her life.
4) Napoleon
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1994
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join a precocious Golden Retriever pup as he takes off on a magical journey to the wilds of the Australian Outback in this wonderful, all-animal adventure.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1992
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.
6) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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....
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Dzongkha
Description
Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
8) Green card
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
9) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
10) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2019, an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, so does the blood supply. Now the vampires must find a blood substitute before time runs out. Researcher Edward Dalton and a clandestine group of vampires have made a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
12) Dead calm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Standard ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John and Rae Ingram rescue the only surviving crew member of a crippled schooner, only to find themselves the targets of a deranged killer.
13) The Garth method
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2001 unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success, he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform in a bizarre movie intended to make Garth a household name. He kept a video diary of the whole process. Upon his release from jail he convinced filmmaker Gregory Pakis to recreate the story of his life.
14) Tim
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Tim is an Australian film which tells the story of the relationship between a handsome young man and an attractive businesswoman in her mid-40s. Tim is mentally retarded but, thanks to his understanding and loving home life, he is able to move through life almost with a child's gentleness and content.
15) Look both ways
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meryl is a lonely artist who literally envisions disaster around every corner. Nick is a photojournalist whose work keeps him emotionally distanced from the tragedies he documents. When the two meet in the aftermath of a real train accident, their lives, and the lives of a handful of other witnesses and victims, are revealed and transformed.
16) Murderous intent
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A police psychologist is assigned to interview a student suspected of murdering his classmate. As she probes his troubled psyche, she unravels a bizarre, disturbing relationship between the two boys and a series of gruesome murders. Dark secrets and dangerous mind games weave a shocking tale of deception, betrayal and murder.
17) Yes man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carl Allen signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything ... and anything. Unleashing the power of 'yes' transforms Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that embracing every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.
18) Mad Max
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang, he returns to seek revenge.
19) The invasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver...
20) Animal kingdom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year-old J is in the process of becoming initiated into a gang of armed robbers, known as the Cody brothers. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world, but soon discovers that the entire situation is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. Meanwhile, senior police officer Nathan Leckie recognizes that J's youth and inexperience may prove to be the key to finally conquering the Codys, and hopes to lure...
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