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Dead Men Running (1971)

Dead Men Running poster
Genre
drama
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Australian mini series looks at how political struggles in early 20th century Ireland affected people in Australia. It follows characters dealing with those distant conflicts in their own lives.

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What happens

Dead Men Running is a 1971 Australian mini series based on the final novel by D'Arcy Niland about the effect in Australia of the political troubles in Ireland early in the twentieth century. The Age said it was "cast in the mould of My Brother Jack." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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