Bryan Brown
2) The Shiralee
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The critically-acclaimed Australian mini-series starring Bryan Brown and Rebecca Smart, is presented in it's original uncut TV format of two 90-minute episodes. Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready...
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
In this compelling Australian war drama directed by Bruce Beresford, three Australian soldiers stand trial for war crimes during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Inspired by true events, "Breaker Morant" is a poignant exploration of the human cost of war and the pursuit of justice in times of conflict.
4) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
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....
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam’s relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defence. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When eleven year old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, he prepares himself for a life of dull hardship, but instead finds myth, adventure, and a friendship with a scrappy, one of a kind dog that will change his life forever.
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Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Following the brutal death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Harry Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers, attacks their camp, and has a captive executed. Other executions and deaths lead to the arrest and trial of Morant and two other lieutenants.
10) Gods of Egypt
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this spectacular action-adventure inspired by the classic mythology of Egypt, the survival of mankind hangs in the balance as an unexpected mortal hero Bek undertakes a thrilling journey to save the world and rescue his true love. In order to succeed, he must enlist the help of the powerful god Horus in an unlikely alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire...
11) Anyone but you
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bea and Ben look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So, they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple" -- Container.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Poseidon adventure: As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, the greatest danger is already on board--a terrorist with an explosive message for the world. Detonated on New Year's Eve, the blast capsizes the ship leaving a motley few--the madman among them--struggling for survival in this upside-down life-and-death drama.
In the Golden Age of Piracy, at the dawn of the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the...
14) The thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.