Record Number |
17521 |
Item Number |
9398711515892 |
Location |
305.89 DVD |
Uniform Title |
The secret river (Television mini-series : 2015) |
Title |
The secret river. [DVD] |
Published |
Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation Roadshow Entertainment Australia, 2015 |
Collation |
1 videodisc (190 minutes) : (DVD video) sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
General Note |
Catalogued from container. |
Roadshow : R-115158-9. |
Based on the novel The secret river by Kate Grenville. |
Special feature: The making of The secret river. |
Creation/Production Credits Note |
Directed by Daina Reid ; produced by Stephen Luby ; screenplay by Jan Sardi and Mac Gudgeon. |
Participant Note |
Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Sarah Snook, Lachy Hulme, Tim Minchin, Trevor Jamieson. |
Summary Note |
In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand.But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight years later Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself. Aboriginal people already live on that river. And other recent arrivals Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring are finding their own ways to respond to them. Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life. |
Target Audience |
Classification : M. |
System Details Note |
DVD video, Dolby digital 2.0, PAL, Region 4, aspect 16:9.. |
Language Note |
English. [CC] English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired).. |
Personal Name |
Grenville, Kate, 1950- -Film adaptations. |
Subject |
Prisoners -- Australia -- Fiction |
Penal colonies - Australia - Fiction |
Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Race relations -- Drama |
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History |
Television mini-series -- Australia |
Historical fiction |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
Geographic Name |
Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction |
New South Wales -- Hawkesbury River Region -- Drama |
Added Name |
Grenville, Kate, 1950.The secret river |
Reid, Dana, (director). |
Added Corporate Name |
Ruby Entertainment |
Cato Logistics |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |