First Warrior

First Warrior

· History, Action

Australia was colonized in the late 1700s. Pemulwuy, a man of the Bidjigal tribes — from the region that is today modern-day Sydney — led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands.

Directed by Warwick Thornton · Written by Stuart Beattie

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