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.

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Cast

Paul Sonkkila

Archie McCall

Val Lehman

Bert's Mother

Ray Meagher

Bad Bob

Bill Hunter

Charlie Bibby

Bill Kerr

Narrator (voice)