The Colony (2005)
- Genre
- reality television
- Country
- Australia
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two families from Britain and Ireland move to Australia and try to live like settlers in a penal colony from 200 years ago. They work alongside an Australian family and Aboriginal Australians and discover how difficult survival was back then.
educationalchallengingeye-openinghistoricalengagingobservationalimmersivehumbling
What happens
The Colony is a reality television program in which two modern families from Britain and Ireland try to survive in the conditions of New South Wales, Australia, 200 years ago, when it was a penal colony (of the period 1795 to 1815). Together with an Australian family and Aboriginal Australians, they learn just how tough you needed to be to survive. The series was nominated for the "Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series" in the Logie Awards of 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Australia: The Story of Us (2015)
Camp Orange (2005)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.