Van Diemen's Land

Drama, History, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jonathan auf der Heide

Status Released

Release Date 2009-09-24

Storyline

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.

"Hunger is a strange silence"