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Australia's first living history series is a blend of historical discovery, social jeopardy, adventure challenge and experimental learning as pampered 21st Century 'pioneers' attempt to prove they're tough enough to survive their historical ordeal. Against this backdrop, the series explores the gripping story of the first settlements...brutal, often bloody conflict between races (Aboriginal, Irish and English), classes (convicts, free settlers and military) and men and women.A British and an Irish family are shipped to the far side of the world to join an Australian family, nine convicts plus an Aboriginal family that is already living on the land. Here the community replicates the early days of European settlement in its struggle for survival, experiencing the unforgiving toughness of the colony of NSW as it was two hundred years ago. They enter an isolated world, cut off from civilisation in almost every respect. They have to cope with the lack of creature comforts as well as the gruelling chores of daily life. Each day presents a new challenge as they struggle (with the help of our experts) to acquire the same essential survival skills as their ancestors did 200 years before. How did the three European families, their volunteer convicts and Aboriginal people come together to face the challenges of early European settlement on the frontier? And how did they cope with the forces of nature, conflict over limited resources, building wooden slab houses, tending to livestock and planting crops in a new and sometimes hostile environment?
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Documentary
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2005
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400
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576i (PAL)
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