overview : 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.

First Air Date : Apr 27, 1986

Last Air Date : Apr 30, 1986

Runtime : 1h 30m

Episodes : 4

Seasons : 1

Genre : Drama,

Companies : PBL Productions

Countries : AU

Keywords : world war i, biography, australia, miniseries, colonialism, 18th century, historical drama, gallipoli campaign