A Fortunate Life (1986)

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.

Released April 27, 1986 360 min Episode 90 min 10+

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.australia, tmdb.world-war-i, tmdb.biography, tmdb.miniseries, tmdb.colonialism, tmdb.18th-century, tmdb.historical-drama + 8 more, tmdb.gallipoli-campaign, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.author, imdb.gallipoli, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.colonialism, imdb.australia, imdb.street-child