Sam Neill
Author
Language
English
Description
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.
By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand...
Author
Series
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 3
Language
English
Description
In Timor, Mary and the other men enjoy the luxury of freedom under false identities. However, fate conspires against them as Clarke stops there on his way back to England.
Author
Series
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cornwall, 1786, hungry Mary Broad is convicted to death for stealing a lady's picnic but 'mercifully' allowed to join for life first governor Phillip's founding shipload to start a penal colony at Botany bay in New South Wales.
Author
Series
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mary, her husband Will, their two children, and five other men set sail for Timor, closely followed by Clarke who obsessively pursues them. Through sheer grit and enormous luck, most of them make it 4,000 miles to the Dutch colony of Timor.
6) Rams
Author
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war raising separate flocks of sheep. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
8) Gallipoli
Publisher
Cinema Epoch
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A look at the battle between the Ottoman Empire and the British, which became one of the most controversial and fiercest battles of the First World War. Includes newly uncovered diaries, photos, and interviews. Narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal form the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller, to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. Accompanying Miller is his elite crew and the lost ship₂s designer; Their mission is to find and salvage the state-of-the-art interstellar horror.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
11) The good wife
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young wife in rural, depression-era Australia, has an unromantic husband and has problems when a cold-hearted womanizer arrives in town to run the hotel bar.
12) Attack Force Z
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson stars with Sam Neill and John Phillip Law in the true story of Z Special Force, WWII's top-secret Pacific commando unit: When an American fighter jet crashes on an island held by the Japanese, a five-man Z Force assault team launches a mission of courage, carnage and desperate jungle warfare to rescue the survivors.
13) Skin
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
14) Backtrack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
15) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
16) Bring Him to Me
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.
18) Wimbledon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An aging male tennis star has one last shot, and two weeks, to win the greatesst tennis tournament and the heart of an upcoming women's tennis star.
19) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin and Les, are at war raising separate flocks of sheep both descended from the family's bloodline. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1939, ten strangers with dubious pasts are lured to Soldier Island. As the mismatched group wait for the arrival of their hosts, the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilization with their own dreadful secrets brought to light.