Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
Summary |
A dramatised documentary that tells one of Australia's great untold stories. On a stifling hot Christmas night in 1803, 23 year-old William Buckley, a young English convict, escapes from the doomed first settlement of Port Phillip Bay in South Eastern Australia, choosing instead to risk the unknown of the hostile Australian wilderness rather than surrender his freedom. Thirty two years later, in 1835, a wild looking white man emerges from the Australian bush with long hair, a beard, dressed in skins and carrying spears. It's William Buckley, long presumed dead. His account, of living for thirty-two years with an Aboriginal tribe before white colonisation, is a tale of love, violence, mortality and loyalty. It's one of the greatest survival stories ever told |
Notes |
Includes depictions of traditional customs that may concern some viewers. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program contains images and voices of people who have died |
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Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast May 4th, 2010. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
Credits |
Writer/Director: Malcolm McDonald ; Producers: Tony Wright and Stephen Amezdroz |
Performer |
Presenter: Michael Cathcart |
Cast |
Jean-Marc Russ, Chris Haywood |
Notes |
Rated: PG |
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Originally produced : Screen Australia, Film Victoria & December Films, 2009 |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Buckley, William, 1780-1856
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Explorers -- Australia -- Biography
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Wathaurong (Australian people) -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History
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Fugitives from justice -- Victoria -- Biography
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Colonization -- History
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Author |
McDonald, Malcolm
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Wright, Tony
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Amezdroz, Stephen
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Cathcart, Michael, 1956-
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Russ, Jean-Marc
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Haywood, Chris
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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