The true story of Australia's most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness in 1882 alongside seven other convicts. (2009) The ...

The former penitentiary, decommissioned in the 1930s, was once a major correctional facility in Van Diemen's Land. In tiny cells uncovered at a central Tasmanian town, prisoners were once given ...

“There’s nothing to a piece of man,” intones the mellifluous voice-over (in Gaelic, with subtitles) late in Jonathan auf der Heide’s strange – and strangely compelling – Van Diemen’s Land. The ...

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Archaeologists in a central Tasmanian town have uncovered the footings of colonial-era solitary cells and gallows from the former Oatlands Gaol, which was buried under an old council swimming pool.

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.

Set in 1822 Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land is based on true gruesome events following the escape of eight convicts, including the much-feared Irish convict Alexander Pearce, from Tasmania’s ...