Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Oranges & sunshine / Screen Australia and Little Gaddesden Productions present in association with Fulcrum Media Fianance, Em Media, South Australian Film Corporation, Deluxe, Screen New and BBC Films a Sixteen Films/See-Saw Films production ; produced by Camilla Bray ; written by Rona Munro ; directed by Jim Loach.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Cohen Media Group : Distributed by New Video, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

video file Blu-ray

Summary:

The unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own safety, Humphreys reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to a corrupt system and an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

Subjects:

Immigrant children -- Australia -- Drama.

Immigrant children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Drama.

Immigrant children -- Abuse of -- Australia -- Drama.

Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Watson, Emily, 1967- actor.

Weaving, Hugo, 1960- actor.