A Fortunate Life — Season 1, Episode 1: Starting Out (1897-1905)
Drama • 90 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 5.0/10
Episode synopsis
Bert Facey's tormented early years through his father's death and harsh economic depression
About A Fortunate Life
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.