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Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adventurer Harry Wingate is hired by an obsessive gem collector to recover the "Blue Lightning", a dazzling opal in the hands of Irish Republican Army financier Lester McInally, who has created an impenetrable fortress in a small town in the Australian outback. Teaming up with the wife of a private detective who also ran afoul of McInally, and some aboriginal helpers, Wingate prepares for an assualt that will determine who will possess the "Blue Lightning."...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the creators of the best-selling documentary Food Matters comes another hard-hitting film certain to change everything you thought you know about food and nutrition. It exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industries don't want you to know about deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 minutes) : (DVD video) sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Description
"Patrick Foley (Academy Award® winner William Holden, Stalag 17) is a complex man with much on his mind. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he has returned to his native Australia in order to live out his final days in the peace and quiet of the wilderness. But a chance encounter with Shawn Daley (Golden Globe winner Ricky Schroder, The Champ), a young boy who has just lost his parents in an accident, turns Patrick's whole world upside down. The two...
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.
6) Mad Max
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge.
7) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
8) Shine
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the desolate Australian outback of the 1880s, newly-arrived Captain Stanley captures the wanted outlaw Charlie Burns. Seeking to civilize the violent outback frontier, Captain Stanley presents his prisoner with a stark choice: Burns can either watch his beloved younger brother Mikey die on the gallows, or find and betray his older and far more dangerous brother Arthur to the authorities.
10) Muriel's wedding
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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!
11) Bright star
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
13) Black Robe
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the rugged 17th century Canadian wilderness, Father Laforgue, a young and idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the wilderness on a perilous journey to convert the Huron Indians. His Algonquin Indian quides nickname him "Black Robe." His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the beautiful daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested...
14) The piano
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
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