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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A series of three programs dealing with issues of Australian identity, including: Land of the long weekend, Populate or perish, Sheep's back. The series is produced by Film Australia's National Interest Program, with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Sharon Connolly. Producer: Susan Ardill. Director: Peter Butt, Sue Brooks, Susan Ardill.
3) Australia
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First Australians and modern-day Aborigines. The ancient and modern story intersect here as nowhere else in the world. The secret to this continuity is diversity. Intuitively, they found the right balance between being...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The program explains landforms and climates in two sections. Landforms shown are The Coastal Plains, Eastern Highlands, Central Lowlands, Great Western Plateau. The Climates section uses a simple approach to describe climatic variation. Shown are Tropical Maritime N E, Warm Temperate SE, Cool Temperate, Mediterranean, Tropical Savanna, Semi Desert and Desert climates. Helicopter shots show Australian landscapes in these regions. --Kanopy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, Giles Weather Station was established in the Australian outback, on the edge of the Gibson Desert, 750 kilometres from Alice Springs, near the border of West and South Australia. The area south of Rawlinson Range had long been home to nomadic Aboriginal people but at that time there were no other settlements for hundreds of miles. It was less than 90 years since the first white man - Ernest Giles - had explored the region and few had...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A companion to Nat Youngs legendary History of Surfing - the biggest-selling surfing book ever - this groundbreaking documentary presents the history of surfing in Australia from its origins in 1915, through its development with wooden boards, the Malibu revolution of the 50s and 60s, the shortboard revolution of the 70s and into the radical 80s. Written, directed and narrated by Nat Young, a four-time World Champion who was integral to surfings evolution...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on the principle that the more one knows about a work of art the better one can appreciate it, this series makes a detailed examination of many of Australia's most outstanding paintings. Besides scrutinising one key work in close detail, each film reveals, wherever possible, the artist's drawings and studies for that work, and shows other related works. Many little known paintings from private collections have been included. Living artists have...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across southern seas. With host Richard Smith, NOVA travels the walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange land it is today. In this final episode, Strange Creatures, NOVA traces the last 65 million years, revealing the events that shaped the Australia we know today. Prehistoric jungles retreated, replaced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues in Life Explodes. Half a billion years ago, Australia was still part of the super-continent Gondwana. The ocean were teeming with weird and wonderful animals, but the world above the waves remained an almost lifeless wasteland. All that was about to change, though. Host Richard Smith introduces Earth's forgotten pioneers: the scuttling arthropod armies...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of our planet's origins than Australia. NOVA's four-part "Australia's First 4 Billion Years" takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids....
11) Inside Australia
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a vast salt lake surrounded by red earth, British sculptor Antony Gormley embarks on an installation that awakens a small Goldfields town in remote Western Australia. Directer: Hugh Brody. Executive Producer: Brian Beaton. Producer: Jody Nunn.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program aims to show the diversity of natural and cultural landscapes that are characteristic of Australia, with contrasts between the vast uninhabited desert areas and the urban areas. Australia is a nation of city dwellers with a multicultural population that lives in relative harmony. The lifestyles and features of the people and their aspirations into the new century are highlighted. The program looks at places of interest in different states...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
No Strangers Here is a fictionalised account of a family of “new Australians” arriving in their new home town. The family (mum, dad, girl and boy) are displaced persons from Northern and Eastern Europe. Produced for the Department of Immigration during the migrant boom that followed World War Two, the film’s essential message is “We want them. We need them”. It presents an idealised Australia, “a happy, smiling land” where people are...
14) Storymakers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storymakers features internationally known Australian writers and illustrators of children's books. The series is designed to develop children's awareness of how books are conceived and created, and to encourage a love of books and reading. Each film in the series highlights different aspects of the process of creating a book. A Film Australia National Interest Program. 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Janet Bell....
15) Hope
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred asylum seekers were pitched into the sea when their people-smuggling boat from Indonesia sank on its way to Australia in 2001. Three hundred and fifty three people drowned. Only seven survivors made it to Australia. Amal Basry was one of those survivors, spending 22 hours in the ocean hanging on to a floating corpse, convinced that her son was dead and she was the only person left alive. Acclaimed documentary maker Steve Thomas records...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
70 year old Grace Mallard refuses to believe her son Andrew is guilty of murder. 11 years ago Andrew was put away for life for the murder of a local jeweler. Over the course of a decade, Grace and her devastated family doggedly fight on to set him free. Along the way they recruit investigative journalist Colleen Egan, charismatic MP John Quigley and top QC Malcolm McCusker to help them. All are convinced that Andrew never got a fair trial. Together...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As Nabilah's mentoring proceeds in Wagin, it is clear she is not meeting Dr Majid's expectations. Already feeling the pressure, Nabilah is pressed even further when a patient at the hospital dies. Meanwhile in the small town of Dalwallinu, news of Dr Mary Fortune's arrival in Kalgoorlie reaches local doctor, Dr Simon Wamono, and he makes a plea for help.--Kanopy.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Personal stories behind the doctors' crisis in rural Australia. Dr Mary Fortune leaves her home, family and friends in Scotland to answer the cries for help from the mining town of Kalgoorlie, in WA. Despite knowing she will miss her son, and husband of 22 years, Dr Mary is excited about the challenge of moving to Kalgoorlie and optimistic about what the experience will be like.--Kanopy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Told over 5 episoides, this is the story of the people who lived for thousands of years in Australia's deserts. They comprise vast seas of sand and spinifex encompassing an area of Central Australia large enough to contain the British Isles twice over. In these areas known as the Gibson, the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert people lived for more than 40,000 years, and adapted to survive in one of the harshest environments known to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the role, character and functions of Australian cities with an emphasis on the State and Territory capitals. The first section shows the general features of these cities and then the main functions are examined. The importance of forms of transport to expansion of cities is shown together with discussion on the growth of cities and associated issues. Australia is one of the most urbanised nations on earth, and this program looks...
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