Bordertown: The Complete Series.(Brief article)(Video recording review)

Bordertown: The Complete Series. 3 discs. color. 9 hrs. Ken Cameron & Ian Gilmour, dist. by BFS Entertainment, www.bfsent.com. 2011. DVD UPC 066805309823. $34.98. F

This Australian Broadcasting Corp. production takes viewers to a place called Baringa, an isolated converted army barracks somewhere in post--World War II Australia. Here are gathered migrants from many countries waiting to be assigned jobs and with those jobs new lives in that vast country. The cast of characters includes mostly people with troubled pasts--these travails unfold …