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Classic Australian Stories : Collection 2 (DVD, 2014, 8-Disc) Region 4
Classic Australian Stories : Collection 2 (DVD, 2014, 8-Disc) Region 4
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Classic Australian Stories : Collection 2 (DVD, 2014, 8-Disc) Region 4.
A SELECTION OF FOUR AWARD-WINNING HISTORICAL TV DRAMAS ADAPTED FROM THE WORKS OF BEST-SELLING AUTHORS A.B FACEY, MARCUS CLARKE, HELEN SIMPSON AND ROLF BOLDREWOOD, CLASSIC AUSTRALIAN STORIES 2 EXPLORES THE HARSH CONDITIONS OF COLONIAL LIFE AND THE MANY CHALLENGING EXPERIENCES THAT HELPED SHAPE A NATION.
A FORTUNATE LIFE - A.B. FACEY
Told in four dramatic episodes this is the extraondinary tale of an ordinary Aussie battler. At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was foroed to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labower: Unschookd, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigous of pioneering the hash
Australian bush and the slauglter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE - MARCUS ClARKE
Disinherited and driven from his home in England, Richard Devine (Colin Friels) changes his name to Rufus Dawes but is then falsely accused of murdering his real father: Transported to the notorious Fort Arthur in Van Diemen's Land, Dawes becomes a hardened convict subject to brutal clashes with fellow prisoners and his jailers induding the anuel la.
Maurice here (Rod Mullinar) and Reverend North (Anthony Perkins). Dawes last hope for vindication is his pussion for Sylvia (enelope Stewart), daughter of prison Commandant, Major Vickers (Patrick Macnee).
ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (MINISERiES) - ROLE BOLDREWOOD
Sam Neill stars as the enigmatic bushranger Captain Starlight, Joined by lannikin Ben Marston (Ed Devereaux) and Ben's two sons (Steven Vidler and Christopher Cummings), Starlight leads his gang of wild colonial boys in scaich of riches and high adventure - including a noctural train hijack and a hot-air balloon assisted jailbreak. But the chief of police and his men ave never far behind in their attempt to bring the outlaw to justice.
UNDER CAPRICORN - HELEN SIMPSON
In 1831 Charles Adare (Peter Cousens) anives in colonial New South Wales and hopes to make his fortune in an exciting new land of opportunity. Charles endears himself to rich landowner Sam Husky John Hallam) in the hope of securing his future. In his grand pursuit of property, Charles is invited to stay with Sam and encounters his troubled wife Henrietta (Lisa Harrow) and devious housekceper Milly Julia Blake), entering a tumultuous passage of existence.
that will test his heart and sharpen his resolve.
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