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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Dorothy Allison, Dale Randall, John Ley, Anthony Richards, Benedict Sweeney, Dominic Sweeney
Crew: Henri Safran, Ken Kelso, A.B. Facey, Marcus Cole
Country: AU
Studio: Nine Network
Runtime: 90:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First air date: Apr 27, 1986
Last air date: Apr 30, 1986
Episode: 4 Episode
Season: 1 Season
IMDb: 7
