Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui
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THE WAY BACK (2010)
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Seven prisoners hatch a plan to escape from a Siberian gulag in Stalin-era Russia, but the break out is only the very beginning, for those that survive there is a 4,000 mile journey across some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world until their hoped for destination of India.
‘The Way Back’ is an epic adaption from the supposedly true story 'The Long Walk' by Slawomir Rawicz.
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