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Faraway Downs

Producers: Baz Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown, Catherine Knapman
Executive Producers: Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Schuyler Weiss, Catherine Knapman
Story: Baz Luhrmann
Screenplay: Baz Luhrmann & Stuart Beattie & Ronald Harwood & Richard Flanagan
Director: Baz Luhrmann

Released: November 26, 2023 (Disney+)

At the outbreak of World War II an English aristocrat inherits a Northern Territory station in Australia's outback. When cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive two thousand head of cattle across the country's most unforgiving landscape, only to face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.

A re-edit of Baz Lurhmann’s 2008 feature film 'Australia' (2h 45m) into a six part miniseries (3h 43m)