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The secret river.

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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
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