Screen Australia
1) Sherpa
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Damon Gameau as he embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as healthy. Highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
3) Goldstone
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
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.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. The film follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more. A wild ride of clashing...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 219 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him: a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption,...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1970s Australia: A 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach and it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in the lives of the local kids. Behind closed doors, the parents of this quiet suburban cul-de-sac celebrate in their own special way. It's a time of boxed wine, bad hair, bad styles, bad choices, but good times. And like the rotting whale, it's all about to go spectacularly wrong.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1963. JFK has been assassinated. The world has changed... and tremors are being felt even all the way in Ballarat. Jean Blake is still adjusting to life after her husband Lucien's disappearance eight months earlier, when she's unexpectedly drawn into the investigation of a pair of bizarre murders. Both cases seem linked to a series of newspaper articles recently published in The Courier and Ballarat's most infamous unsolved mysteries. No one...
8) Tanna
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In one of the last traditional tribes in the South Pacific, a young girl falls in love with her chief 's grandson. But when war with their enemies escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, but are pursued by warriors of both tribes. With their lives on the line, the star-crossed lovers must choose between their hearts and the peaceful future of the tribe.
9) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
12) 100 bloody acres
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan are struggling to keep their organic blood and bone fertilizer business in motion. Part of their secret 'recipe' is car crash victims, and supply has been scarce. Reg encounters a group of travelers stranded on the highway and cooks-up a plan to save the business.
13) Killing ground
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A couple's romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride.
14) Storm boy
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the beloved book, the emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.
15) Winchester
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
16) Tracks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her voyage.
17) The dressmaker
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
18) The daughter
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a fifteen-year absence, Christian returns home to rural New South Wales for the marriage of his father, Henry, the wealthy owner of the local mill that's been the economic bedrock of the community for generations. Christian gets reacquainted with his old friend Oliver and finds himself drawn to Oliver's family, which includes wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father-in-law Walte. Unexpectedly, Christian discovers a secret that could tear...
19) 2:22
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New York City air traffic controller Dylan Branson is the embodiment of a guy at the top of his game, until one day at 2:22 pm, a blinding flash of light paralyzes him for a few crucial seconds as two passenger planes barely avoid a midair collision.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 448 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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,...