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2 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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. Doctor Blake finds his tenure under threat by a new arrival. 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...
4) Australia
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1 videodisc (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....
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1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The time is World War II. De Bricassart heroically rescues refugees in Rome, then is sent by the Vatican to the sprawling Australian sheep ranch he thought he had left behind forever. A reunion with Maggie leads to new temptations and a crisis.
6) 52 tuesdays
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1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
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1 videodisc, NTSC (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of school boys who were hacking into the US military at the dawn of the Internet. Set in suburban Melbourne in the late 1980s, it follows a teenage Julian Assange and his gang of friends, the International Subversives, as they try to break into the computer systems of the world's most powerful organizations. Hoping to uncover the inner workings of these groups, the boys wage battle from their bedrooms.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 479 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the hit Australian dramedy returns, hotshot surgeon Hugh Knight continues to serve out his probation in his rural hometown, while his family faces struggles that could bring them closer together, or tear them apart.
9) On the beach
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (591 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama follows Sarah Adams, a nurse returning to 1950s Australia after twenty years in Europe. A convert to Judaism, Sarah emerged from the horrors of World War II strong, principled, and defiant--a modern woman still bearing the weight of her past.
After World War II, a nurse returns to Australia to start a new life after spending twenty years in Europe.
Series
Doctor Blake volume 4
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 472 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of Dr. Lucien Blake as he practices medicine and investigates murder in 1950s rural Australia.
12) The cry
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The abduction of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young woman, Joanna, as she and her partner, Alistair, deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the bright light of public scrutiny and in their private lives.
The four-part psychological thriller follows the lives of a young couple, Joanna (Jenna Coleman) and her husband Alistair (Ewen Leslie). Joanna and Alistair...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
After World War II, a nurse returns to Australia to start a new life after spending twenty years in Europe.
14) ANZAC girls
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2 videodiscs (363 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, this uplifting drama tells the story of five Australian and New Zealand nurses during World War I. Drawing on the real participants' diaries and letters, this six-part drama celebrates the contributions of women to the war effort.
15) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (449 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.
After World War II, a nurse returns to Australia to start a new life after spending twenty years in Europe.
17) Beautiful
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"After another teenage girl disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy suspects the involvement of the strange woman who lurks in the window of house number 46 and the rumbling black Ford that creeps the streets at sundown. Using her seductive charm, she persuades Danny, her fourteen year old admirer, to help uncover the truth"--Container.
18) Muriel's wedding
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
19) Ride a wild pony
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Australian ranch owner's gift of a wild pony means young Scotty can finally ride the seven miles to and from school. But the pony gets away and is sheltered as unclaimed by a young girl who cannot walk. The treasured pony means freedom to both children, but can only belong to one.
Two Australian children, one rich and one poor, both claim the same horse as their own and learn about friendship and sharing as they become involved in a fight...
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2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious series set in a real Australian high school, actor/comedian Chris Lilley stars as three different characters: a vain drama teacher, a self-absorbed boy, and a haughty female exchange student.
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