Search results for | Biography

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007) [M]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief to French Elle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves him in a life-altered state. While the...  More

The Counterfeiters
(2007) [MA]

Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is the king of the counterfeiters, living the high life of cards, booze and women in Weimar Berlin. A criminal and a Jew, he is arrested into a Nazi concentration camp but his exceptional skills are spotted and he is forced to help the Nazis in an organised...  More

The Fighting 69th
(1940) [PG]

"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and non-coms of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the...  More

War Dance
(2007) [PG]

War/Dance tells the story of Uganda's brutal civil war through the eyes of a group of children whose love of music brings joy, excitement and hope back into their poverty-stricken lives. Dominic, Nancy and Rose have lived in the most dangerous part of the war zone and witnessed unimaginable...  More

Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond
(1998) [PG]

The most compelling and comprehensive movie ever produced about the life and work of Peter Beard, the photographer & writer who relentlessly fought in defence of Africa's fauna, this is the definitive portrait of the world's greatest adventure photographer. Narrated by Charlotte Rampling, the...  More

First Australians (2 disc set)
(2008) [PG]

First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world?s greatest empire.

Over seven documentaries,...  More

Mongol
(2007) [MA]

Award-winning filmmaker Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning epic, Mongol.

Based on leading historical accounts and a nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 Academy Awards, Mongol delves into the dramatic and harrowing early...  More

Hula Girls
(2006) [M]

It is 1965 and in Japan, the country has started to shift from coal to oil. One by one the old mining towns begin to show their decline. but for one small town way up north, its leaders and mining company officials have come up with an idea to develop Japan's first Hawaiian village. And what's a...  More

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
(2007) [M]

Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson's personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams' mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol's lover, and a promising young filmmaker.

In 1965, Danny Williams was...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Disc 1 of 3)
(2003) [MA]

THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES follows the titular character on a series of cross-country adventures starting in 1928 - the year uranium was discovered - until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Traveling through such diverse terrain as the mid-West of America, Japan, Manchuria and Siberia, Tulse...  More