A Fortunate Life
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A Fortunate Life

1986 1h 30m 1 Season • 4 Episodes ★ 4.0 (2 votes) Ended

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

Director

Marcus Cole

Writer

Ken Kelso

Rating
4.0
Runtime
90 min
Episodes
4

Production

PBL Productions

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Keywords

world war ibiographyaustraliaminiseriescolonialism18th centuryhistorical dramagallipoli campaign

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