A Fortunate Life

• 1986
• •
• Ended
• •
• PG

• Drama

★ 5.0 TMDB Rating · 3 votes

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.

Seasons

1

Episodes

4

Episode length

~1h 30m

First aired

Apr 27, 1986

Networks

Nine Network

Original language

English

Origin

Australia