True Believers (1988)

Original title

The True Believers

Genre

war & politics, drama

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Australian miniseries follows the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War II until a major split in 1955. It focuses on three political leaders: Chifley, Menzies, and Evatt, showing their roles in a changing nation.

dignifiedidealisticpoliticalhistoricalreflectivesomberdialogue-heavycharacter-driven

What happens

True Believers is a 1988 Australian miniseries which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War II up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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