Season 1 of A Fortunate Life continues the story and main plot of the series, bringing together key events and character development across the season.
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.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: 18th-century , australia , biography , colonialism , gallipoli-campaign , historical-drama , miniseries , world-war-i