This Land Australia

Year of completion
1990
Content type
Documentary
Format
Series
Duration
12 x 46 minute episodes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

The variety of the Australian land and lifestyles is presented on film: Valleys of Hope, with the German migration to Australia and new prosperity; nostalgic journeys on some of Australia's best loved and restored steam trains; the vanishing frontier of a people and lifestyle in Cape York peninsula; the Undara lava tubes and pioneering stories of Australia's wild west; harvesting the jewels of the sea around Broome; and paddleboats of the River Murray.