Australia: Land Beyond Time

Australia: Land Beyond Time (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Chinese ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Korean ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
40 min + 42 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
David Flatman

Written By:
David Flatman
Les Murray

Actors:
Alex Scott ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

A breathtaking journey through the exotic, surreal and dramatic natural environment of Australia. Australia, the world's largest island and smallest continent, is an exotic, intriguing land shaped by its isolation from all other lands. With thousands of miles of red desert sand dunes that characterize its famous Outback and lush coastal rainforests rich with unique wildlife, Australia is a place of extremes. Australia: Land Beyond Time takes viewers on a breathtaking journey back in time to witness the birth and evolution of a mysterious land that harbours remnants of Earth's earliest life and many of its strangest creatures that exist nowhere else on the planet.

With its endless coastline and vast expanses of red, sandy desert, our continent, seemingly unaffected by time, harbours unique inhabitants and dramatic scenery. Kangaroos bound majestically across the plains, thorny devils scamper comically through the spinifex and koala families take siestas, lounging together atop their eucalyptus perches. Exotic rainforests and cascading waterfalls also are counted among our continent's hidden treasures. Tracing the four-billion-year journey of the southern continent, Australia: Land Beyond Time explores the lavish richness, diversity and uniqueness of Australia's life, life that survived and evolved during the most challenging of voyages. It brings to the giant screen animals that hop instead of run, creatures that have fur yet lay eggs, ants that plant seeds, plants that were the food of dinosaurs and water birds that fly inland to breed only every few years when sporadic rains come. Through the most ingenious strategies, the film shows how life has managed to flourish on impoverished soils, where flood and drought go hand-in-hand. In breathtaking large-format imagery, it surveys some of the most surreal and fascinating landscapes on Earth from ancient, eroded sea beds and vibrant, red sand dunes that merge with far horizons to the jeweled sea of its immense coral reef. Australia is a remarkable journey through time. This movie is an opportunity to travel to some of the most remote regions of the continent, places that very few Australians have ever visited. See fascinating sites, including Lake Eyre filled with water - an event that only happens about twice every century.

The story of Australia's journey through time and the strategies its plants and animals used to survive an ever-changing environment as it became the oldest, flattest, driest inhabited continent on earth.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 26 October, 2014.