Film
Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
2011 · 1h 3m · Documentary
In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation
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Overview
Biography of Lachlan Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who arrived to govern the colony of New South Wales in Australia in 1810. In just over a decade, the couple transformed the prison colony into a proto nation.
Cast
David Tennant
Narrator
Grace Karskens
Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)
Tom Devine
Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)
Clive Russell
Lachlan Macquarie
Julie Wilson Nimmo
Elizabeth Macquarie
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)
Details
- Release date
- January 25, 2011
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Rated
- E
- Genres
- Documentary
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