All the Rivers Run (1983)

Directed by

Pino Amenta, George T. Miller

Genre

drama television series

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman becomes the first female riverboat skipper in Australia. She navigates life and love on the Murray River in the late 1800s.

sweepingromanticadventurousdeterminedhistoricalslow-burnresilientearthynostalgic

What happens

All the Rivers Run is an Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato, first published in 1958. It was inspired by the life of Pearl Wallace, Australia's first river boat Skipper. It was adapted as a 1983 Australian television miniseries starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters. The miniseries is marketed with the tagline A sweeping saga of one woman's struggle for survival. A sequel, All the Rivers Run II, was produced in 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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