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1) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. His co-conspirator Lawson has been fired from Ballarat, his emotional embrace with Jean has changed life in the house and a new arrival leaves his tenure under threat. But that's the least of his troubles when he uncovers a dark story behind his mother's death. In this eight-part series return, the wonderfully maverick Doctor Blake is pushed to his limits to find the truth behind a range of intriguing murders...
Publisher
[BBC America]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After reuniting with his long-lost daughter in Singapore, Dr. Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat, Australia, where a new Senior Constable and an old foe do their best to thwart his work as police surgeon. And yet they need Blake's help to solve the murder of the mayor of Ballarat, the stabbing of a rock 'n' roll star and the poisoning of a well-dressed picnicker.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Dr. Lucian Blake returns to his Australian hometown to continue his late father's medical practice, but it is his additional responsibility as the town's chief medical officer that leads him to investigating cases of suspicious death.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
11) Ned Kelly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Irish immigrant Ned Kelly is sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a horse. After his release, he finds work tending to horses owned by Richard Cook, whose wife becomes interested in Ned. Fitzpatrick, is a police officer interested in Ned's sister Kate. When she refuses his advances, Fitzpatrick steals the family's animals. Not being able to go straight, Ned goes on the run and steals from a string of banks to support himself...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follow the Honorable Phryne (fry-nee) Fisher through the back alleys, shady markets, and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne. A glamorous lady detective in a mostly male world, she goes about her work with a pear-handled pistol and dagger-sharp wit, leaving a trail of male admirers in her wake. Includes 8 episodes.
Eight all-new episodes of the glamorous, gun-toting lady detective Phryne Fisher. Along with her ever-faithful companion, Dot Williams,...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Full of lively wit, surprising twists, and gorgeous period detail, the 1960s-set spinoff to the beloved Australian mystery series returns with new adventures for Phryne Fisher's plucky niece, Peregrine. Now established as a private detective, Peregrine works out of the Melbourne Adventuress Club with assistance from tough former spy Birdie Birnside and brilliant biologist Violetta Fellini. With her partner in crime-solving, Detective James Steed,...
15) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Lawless stars as "retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored--whether Alexa wants to or not--Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime. Tenacious and unapologetic, Alexa brings her dry wit and brash style as she contends with a suspicious death at a competitive culinary school, a murder in an exclusive cycling club, a woman who fell from the balcony...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The spin-off series of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries follows Peregrine Fisher as she takes up her Aunty's mantle of sleuthing in 1960's Melbourne. Starring Geraldine Hakewill as Peregrine Fisher, Joel Jackson as Det. James Steed, and Catherine McClements as Birdie. In 1964, the gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher is rocketed from a lonely, dissatisfying small-town life, into a career as a fearless investigator, supported by a coterie of remarkable...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake and his long-suffering housekeeper and confidant Jean Beazley now face a new future together, full of possibility. But life has a few more surprises in store for the both of them. Once again they'll be confronted by murder and mystery at every turn.
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