Jack Thompson
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, plans to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, Australia. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
South Pacific: "Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved musical South Pacific. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by James Michener, and featuring some of the finest music ever written for stage... South Pacific spins a romantic tale of love and loss on a tropical island naval base during the Second World War." --Container.
Gypsy: "Bette Midler stars as the world's most relentless stage mother, who lovingly but unremittingly drives her two daughters,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet. The two embark on one of the most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
8) Poker face
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatches plans of their breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
p2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish, to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question...
11) Breaker Morant
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this is the tale of three soldiers who are court-martialed at the end of the Boer War. When one of their comrades is ambushed and killed, three soldiers seek revenge and kill the Boer soldier. The act of murder and the mysterious disappearance of a German missionary leads to the arrest of the three men. In one of the most controversial court-martials in military history, they are defended by Major Thomas, a small town Australian...
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The time is World War II. De Bricassart heroically rescues refugees in Rome, then is sent by the Vatican to the sprawling Australian sheep ranch he thought he had left behind forever. A reunion with Maggie leads to new temptations and a crisis.
13) Mad Dog Morgan
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits with the law caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of an extensive manhunt. Based on documented events which took place during the Australian Gold Rush of the 1860's.
15) Wind
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An adventure story about a brash young sailor who breaks with tradition in his quest to reclaim the America's Cup for the United States.
17) Last dance
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Cindy Liggett is a convicted killer facing imminent execution until a young lawyer becomes convinced her case doesn't warrant the death penalty.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
Publisher
Dreamline
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mad dog Morgan: A dramatization of the story of Dan Morgan, an adventurer whose exploits during the Australian gold rush caused him to become a wanted outlaw and the object of a manhunt.
Dust to dust: In Brambles, Texas, the town mayor seeks the deed to property owned by a band of orphans and guarded by a mysterious ghost. To acquire it he will go to any length, including calling in a professional gunslinger.
Klansman: When a young white woman...