Sam Neill
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
Get to know the star of some of the world's favourite film and TV classics in this fascinating and funny memoir.
For over forty years, Sam Neill's name has been a hallmark of quality. From enduring blockbusters to arthouse classics, his work has taken him all over the world, starring with some of cinema's greats.
In Did I Ever Tell You This? he shares stories from an extraordinary life with charm, honesty and an appreciation
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Series
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 3
Description
In Timor, Mary and the other men enjoy the luxury of freedom under false identities. However, fate conspires against them as Clarke stops there on his way back to England.
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Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 2
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Mary, her husband Will, their two children, and five other men set sail for Timor, closely followed by Clarke who obsessively pursues them. Through sheer grit and enormous luck, most of them make it 4,000 miles to the Dutch colony of Timor.
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Series
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 1
Description
Cornwall, 1786, hungry Mary Broad is convicted to death for stealing a lady's picnic but 'mercifully' allowed to join for life first governor Phillip's founding shipload to start a penal colony at Botany bay in New South Wales.
5) Rams
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Two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war raising separate flocks of sheep. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
6) Yes
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon living in exile in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hunter becomes the hunted when an elite assassin is given his final contract: to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are equally skilled assassins hired to kill him. His only shot to survive is to uncover the mysterious mastermind behind the deadly plot before it's too late.
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A new Soviet sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast. Government experts think it is planning to attack- that is, all the experts but one. He thinks the sub's commander is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find the sub and prove his theory.
9) Backtrack
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Psychiatrist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
10) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (542 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
13) Attack Force Z
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the Sambalang Straits in the Southern Pacific in January 1945, Z Special Force are asked to locate and recover a defecting Japanese government official from a plane crash site.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The remarkable story of the chance meeting that transformed penniless, ostracised archaeologist Howard Carter into a household name following his discovery of the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.
15) Long way down
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four strangers happen to meet on a London rooftop with the intent of committing suicide on New Year's Eve. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
16) Doctor Zhivago
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (225 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 628 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the turn of the 20th century, one remarkable man single-handedly tried to alter the course of history. Sidney Reilly was a Russian-born British agent who radically transformed modern espionage techniques and set the mold for the super spy. From one heart-pulsing mission after another, from stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits...
18) Little fish
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After years of treading water in her career and redeeming herself after a troubled past, Tracy Heart sets a goal of owning her own business. Her goals are torn apart by the return of her ex-boyfriend and the criminal intentions of her brother.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.
20) Tommy's honour
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Tommy's Honour is based on the powerfully moving true story of the challenging relationship between "Old" Tom and "Young" Tommy Morris, the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf. As their fame grew, Tom and Tommy, Scotland's Golf Royalty, were touched by drama and personal tragedy. At first matching his father's success, Tommy's talent and fame grew to outshine his father's accomplishments and respect as founder of the Open...