The Story of Australia
S01:E04 - Hard Roads to Glory
S01:E01 - Worlds Collide
For over 50,000 years Aboriginal Australians meet challenges like the deadly marsupial lion. The colonists rebel against Governor William Bligh, a revolution with its roots in rum.
S01:E02 - Break Out
Wool drives the colonies' expansion. For some convicts Australia becomes a land of opportunity. Gold miners fight and die for their rights against the deadliest army in the world.
S01:E03 - Forging a Nation
The Birth of the Bushranger; Nellie Melba launches Australia on the world's great stages; and in World War One, submarine AE2 changes the course of the Gallipoli campaign.
S01:E04 - Hard Roads to Glory
In WW1 nurse Alicia Kelly helps transform emergency medicine; Pompey Elliot breaks the stalemate of trench warfare. Charles Kingsford Smith is first to fly across the Pacific.
S01:E05 - A New Australia
In WW2 Australians fight to defend their continent. In the peace an Australian-made car changes lives. Finding an iron ore mother-load changes the economy.
S01:E06 - Revolutions
Desmond Duke fights cops for the right to dance. Surfer Midget Farrelly battles for freedom on the waves. Advertising genius John Singleton celebrates the Australian Voice.
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