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1) Green bush
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 26 min. 25 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Every night, Indigenous radio announcer and DJ, Kenny, hosts the Green Bush show for Aboriginal communities. Isolated at the station, he takes requests for music, while at the same time coping with the pressure of the community around him. Based on his own experiences as a radio DJ in Alice Springs in central Australia, Warwick Thornton (later director of the award-winning feature, Samson and Delilah) made an international impact with this graceful...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Christina Ricci stars in director Sarah Spillane’s inspirational drama, a world premiere at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. With encouragement from a drama teacher (Christina Ricci), a teen in Sydney, Australia (Hunter Page-Lochard) confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future. AROUND THE BLOCK is about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph,...
3) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
4) Goldstone
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
5) The tracker
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the Fugitive. Frustrations spill over as the tension mounts....
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. Unfamiliar with...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpshooter Quigley travels to western Australia, only to find himself saddled with a half-loco lady, and locked in a lethal battle with a wealthy rancher.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
10) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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....
11) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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.
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