Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Kristy, Ben and Liz are three friends in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. Trouble begins when they get back from their hike to find that their car won't start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a friendly local bushman named Mick Taylor, but what Mick has in mind for them has nothing to do with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR WOLSummary: A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NiCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NIGSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUISummary: Sharpshooter Quigley travels to western Australia, only to find himself saddled with a half-loco lady, and locked in a lethal battle with a wealthy rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Quigley 2001Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUISummary: Set one thousand years ago in Australia, a young man covets one of his older brother's wives and is told a mythical story about why this is wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENSummary: Dramatization of the life of a half caste torn between his Aboriginal roots and his desire to be part of white society. When he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule, he and his full blood Aborigine brother embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites before he is captured, tried, and executed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: 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 neighboring 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWESummary: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Collection 1998