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Evan Evans is settling into his role as constable of Llanfair, a small town nestled in the mountains of North Wales. While the village of Llanfair has always been at odds with the neighboring town of Beddgelert, an intriguing archaeological find in the nearby hills brings that rivalry to dangerous extremes and creates a circus of local enthusiasm and gossip. The circus quickly turns deadly, however when Llanfairs prodigal son, Ted Morgan, announces...
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
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Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's because it's a new science-- others say it's because they...
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Constable Evans is persuaded to join the local male choir for the upcoming eisteddfod (cultural festival), but despite all the effort that choir master Mostyn Phillips puts into the choir, it is not exactly first class.Hope arrives in the form of world renowned tenor Ifor Llewelyn, who's come home to Llanfair to rest, on doctor's orders. Llewelyn sets about renewing old friendships, and even agrees to sing in the choir. But he is'nt home for long...
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's...
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Shaye Areheart Books
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When Fiona Edwards first sees the lanky backpacker striding up the lane toward her award-winning farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the remote mountains of North Wales, she's puzzled. She's used to unexpected strangers, but few arrive on foot. The man to whom she opens her door is middle-aged, unshaven, sweat-soaked … and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at that moment is that their lives are about to change forever.
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7) Rogue nation
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Historian Michael Cathcart tells the epic story of how the colourful characters of early colonial Australia transformed a penal settlement into a land with rights and opportunity in a mere 40 years. This sweeping two-part dramatised documentary covers formative events in Australia's history, including the Rum Rebellion and early court cases, which established independence and civil rights for all settlers. Rogue Nation explores how a fledgling colony...
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Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find--except it's not just the man who's gone missing. Despite the most advanced technology at their disposal, they find every trace of him has vanished, too. And they aren't the only ones on the hunt.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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They're schoolgirls - dreaming of the future, wanting to go out and have fun, trying to work out relationships with families, friends and boyfriends - and attempting to finish high school while raising their babies. Plumpton High, in Sydney's outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a program that supports schoolgirl mothers completing their education, integrating them into the general student population. Over 100 girls have...
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BBC Worldwide
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[Widescreen]
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"Outside the government, beyond the police, fighting for the future on behalf of the human race. The 21st century is when everything changes and Torchwood is ready. Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen, Owen, Toshiko and Ianto return as the investigators delving into the alien underworld of modern-day Cardiff. The second season sees the team encounter alien terrorists, a stranded creature threatened by humans, a tragic soldier from the First World War,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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This program examines one of the world's largest urban redevelopment schemes and schows how a run down area of a city can be renewed. Sydney is Australia's largest city. The population of over 4 million is spread over one of the largest suburban areas of any city in the world. The State Government has a policy of urban consolidation to increase the densities in inner suburbs and reduce urban sprawl. The program examines the growth of Sydney and also...
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Constructed as a series of vignettes of station life, the film focuses particularly on the relationship between Sunny Bancroft, the station manager, and a 16-year-old trainee, Shane Gordon. The episodes are linked by Sunnys reflections on learning the hard way from experience, and from the lessons taught him by his father. With intertitles to introduce each episode, the film is eloquent in its depiction of Sunnys patient approach to managing his...
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Kanopy Streaming
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This observational documentary follows an episode in the routine life on Collum Collum cattle-station in northern New South Wales. But, as the filmmaker notes, its a story that could have occurred anywhere. The film follows the attempts by Sunny Bancroft and other men in the Collum Collum Aboriginal community to remove a failed engine from a car and replace it with a refurbished engine from another car. Its a familiar rural task where the expectation...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight the Aborigines Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, the film weaves a moving account of a hidden history, the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights and self-determination. A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class. "A...
15) Puberty blues
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Puberty Blues traces the lives of two adolescent females who have spent the first part of their lives in a group by themselves, while desperately trying to break into the "in" crowd who dominate the Greenhill beach. Once they are accepted into the group, they realise that the group's laid-back, ultra-cool facade is just that: a glossy cover-up. The main protagonist, Debbie (Nell Schofield) and her life-long companion Sue (Jad Capelja) fall into all...
16) I let you go
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Berkley Books
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Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
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St. Martin's Press
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Everyone knows the public Diana: the sweet, shy English girl with "a history but no past" who married the Prince of Wales in a storybook wedding. But what of Diana in private? Was she really just an innocent kindergarten teacher when she and Prince Charles got engaged? Was she truly in love with her fiance - and how did he feel about her? And what went on behind the palace gates after the honeymoon was over? While Diana's previous biographers have...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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This program looks at communities in Sydney with different Socio economic status and ethnic backgrounds. These are Cabramatta with a predominantly Vietnamese and other Asian background, Baulkham Hills, a high SES LGA of 180000 people ; and Lakemba which has over 40% of the population following the Muslim faith and many with Lebanese backgrounds and culture. --Kanopy.
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Kanopy Streaming
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Link-Up Diary explores the consequences of the New South Wales governments long-term practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents and raising them in “white” environments. The film takes the form of a personal journey by the filmmaker, David MacDougall, as he spends a week on the road with three workers from Link-Up. Link-Up is an Aboriginal organisation founded in 1980 by Oomera (Coral) Edwards, herself taken away from her...
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