Miriam Margolyes
1) Mateship
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
As she heads along the vast empty highway through central Australia, Miriam ponders the Australian concept of "mateship" and what it means to people today. Australia is the only country in the world that enshrines "mateship" in its culture - but how deep does it run? Miriam thinks the whole thing might be blokey and outdated… So from Alice Springs to the back of beyond and Darwin, she's off to find out more!
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
On the final leg of her journey, Miriam explores the idea of Australia as "the Lucky Country". With Donald Horne's iconic book as her companion, Miriam travels through the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland and the Gold Coast. Along the way, she examines whether her fellow Australians think Australia is in fact the "Lucky Country" - and whether we believe the best is still ahead.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Miriam feels extraordinarily lucky to have been given a second chance at life in a new country at the ripe old age of 78 years old. But becoming a citizen has also made her question how much she really knows about the place she can now call home. The Australia she knows and loves is a sunnily optimistic place, but has she been looking at Australia through rose-coloured glasses?
6) Early Man
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the Earth, EARLY MAN tells the story of Dug, a caveman and his trusty side-hog Hognob as they unite the tribe against a new enemy to save their home.
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A Little Princess: Sara Crewe has always been the pampered darling of the doting father, a British Indian Army captain, and by the exclusive boarding school were she attends. But when her father dies and her fortune is lost, Sara becomes the victim of hardship and cruelty. Through friendship, imagination and her own resolute nature, Sara finds her way back to happiness. The Secret Garden: Filmed before (and quite nicely) in 1949, Frances Hodgson Burnett's...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.
Pub. Date
[2015]
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,...
10) Mulan
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
2-disc special edition.
Description
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
15) An Ideal Husband
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Description
A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society and a shower of Wildean witticisms are only a few of the reasons this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London and New York. This 1895 drama also seems eerily prescient, as it explores the plight of a promising young politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher
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