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Title The extraordinary tale of William Buckley
Published 2010

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 ADPML SPWV  994.502092 Buckle Mcd/Eto  2010/04/11  LIB USE ONLY
 MELB  994.502092 Buckle Mcd/Eto  2010/04/11  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  994.502092 Buckle Mcd/Eto  2010/04/11  AVAILABLE
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
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
Originally produced : Screen Australia, Film Victoria & December Films, 2009
DVD. Region unspecified
Available for Deakin University staff and students only
Subject Buckley, William, 1780-1856
Explorers -- Australia -- Biography
Wathaurong (Australian people) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History
Fugitives from justice -- Victoria -- Biography
SUBJECT Australia -- Colonization -- History
Author McDonald, Malcolm
Wright, Tony
Amezdroz, Stephen
Cathcart, Michael, 1956-
Russ, Jean-Marc
Haywood, Chris
ABC-TV (Australia)