The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalised until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration.
Australian director John Hillcoat's debut feature film, featuring an original score written and...
本剧是2005年英国和澳大利亚合拍的两集迷你剧,每集九十分钟,改编自真实事件, 讲述了十八世纪末澳洲第一代移民的艰辛逃亡之旅。
在澳大利亚新南威尔士殖民地建立之初就不断有囚犯想方设法逃出去,虽说他们普遍没有什么地理知识,甚至都不知道自己究竟身处何处。很多囚犯虽然暂时成功逃离殖民地的定居点,但是从长远来看并算不上成功:有些人因为没有办法在澳大利亚的荒蛮的土地上生存,在饥饿的驱使之下不得不返回定居点,还有些人则永远消失在茫茫原野之上。
所有第一批到达澳洲的数百名囚犯当中,目前知道的仅有一人最终成功逃离定居点并返回英国,她就是Mary Bryant。Mary出生于英格兰康沃尔郡,她的逃亡故事比传奇小说还要精彩百倍, 她的丈夫, William Bryant也是同批到达澳洲的一名囚犯,两人在殖民地注册结婚。一七九一年早些时候,他们夫妇二人,带着两个年幼的孩子...
1919. After fighting in WWI as a sniper Travis, now a Policeman in the vast empty spaces of northern Australia, loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of an Indigenous tribe. After his superiors insist on burying the truth Travis leaves in disgust, only to be forced back twelve years later to hunt down Baywara, an Aboriginal warrior whose attacks on new-sett...