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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A series of three programs dealing with issues of Australian identity, including: Land of the long weekend, Populate or perish, Sheep's back. The series is produced by Film Australia's National Interest Program, with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Sharon Connolly. Producer: Susan Ardill. Director: Peter Butt, Sue Brooks, Susan Ardill.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat after an attempt to reunite with his long lost daughter. But it's no longer the safe haven he left behind: Danny has been transferred to Melbourne, replaced by a new Senior Constable who seems hell bent on making Blake's job as police surgeon as difficult as possible. Blake's old nemesis Patrick Tyneman has called in the help of some powerful men to keep an eye on Blake. And of course there are the strange and...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A companion to Nat Youngs legendary History of Surfing - the biggest-selling surfing book ever - this groundbreaking documentary presents the history of surfing in Australia from its origins in 1915, through its development with wooden boards, the Malibu revolution of the 50s and 60s, the shortboard revolution of the 70s and into the radical 80s. Written, directed and narrated by Nat Young, a four-time World Champion who was integral to surfings evolution...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, Giles Weather Station was established in the Australian outback, on the edge of the Gibson Desert, 750 kilometres from Alice Springs, near the border of West and South Australia. The area south of Rawlinson Range had long been home to nomadic Aboriginal people but at that time there were no other settlements for hundreds of miles. It was less than 90 years since the first white man - Ernest Giles - had explored the region and few had...
8) Australia
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First Australians and modern-day Aborigines. The ancient and modern story intersect here as nowhere else in the world. The secret to this continuity is diversity. Intuitively, they found the right balance between being...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The program explains landforms and climates in two sections. Landforms shown are The Coastal Plains, Eastern Highlands, Central Lowlands, Great Western Plateau. The Climates section uses a simple approach to describe climatic variation. Shown are Tropical Maritime N E, Warm Temperate SE, Cool Temperate, Mediterranean, Tropical Savanna, Semi Desert and Desert climates. Helicopter shots show Australian landscapes in these regions. --Kanopy.
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on the principle that the more one knows about a work of art the better one can appreciate it, this series makes a detailed examination of many of Australia's most outstanding paintings. Besides scrutinising one key work in close detail, each film reveals, wherever possible, the artist's drawings and studies for that work, and shows other related works. Many little known paintings from private collections have been included. Living artists have...
13) Last ride
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
17) Jindabyne
Pub. Date
2007.
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.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follow the Honorable Phryne (fry-nee) Fisher through the back alleys, shady markets, and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne. A glamorous lady detective in a mostly male world, she goes about her work with a pear-handled pistol and dagger-sharp wit, leaving a trail of male admirers in her wake. Includes 8 episodes.
Eight all-new episodes of the glamorous, gun-toting lady detective Phryne Fisher. Along with her ever-faithful companion, Dot Williams,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across southern seas. With host Richard Smith, NOVA travels the walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange land it is today. In this final episode, Strange Creatures, NOVA traces the last 65 million years, revealing the events that shaped the Australia we know today. Prehistoric jungles retreated, replaced...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of our planet's origins than Australia. NOVA's four-part "Australia's First 4 Billion Years" takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids....
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