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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011)
“In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation”
Documentary · 1h 03m
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
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Grace Karskens
Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)
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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
- 2011-01-25
- Runtime
- 1h 03m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- Screen Australia, Intomedia, Screen NSW, Caledonia Productions