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Beaconsfield

Television Movie

On Anzac Day 2006, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, along with fellow miner Larry Knight, were trapped deep inside the Beaconsfield gold mine in Tasmania after a cave-in. Todd and Brant were enclosed nearly 1000 metres underground, caged in a space so small they couldn’t sit up straight or lie down. Most Australians know that Todd and Brant survived the mine collapse that killed their mate Larry. However, they don’t know much more than that. Now Beaconsfield tells the whole story.

After discovering the two men were alive, the search became a dramatic rescue mission. Working in conditions that could see another cave-in at any moment, colleagues worked tirelessly to get them out alive. It was an event Australia and the world watched unfolding with bated breath. As every news outlet in the country scrambled to cover the story, the frantic work of the rescuers continued.

Starring: Shane Jacobson (The BBQ, A Few Less Men, Goober, Jack Irish, Open Slather, The EX-PM, Fat Tony & Co, It’s a Date, The Bourne Legacy, Kenny’s World). Lachy Hulme (Offspring, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story, Scumbus, Howzat, The Caravan, The Ex-PM, Gallipoli, It’s a Date, The Little Death, Rush). Cameron Dado (Con Man, Wink, Eldridge Way, Heaven with a Gun, Almost Broadway, Stichers, NCIS: Los Angeles, Nerve, Packed to the Rafters, Nikita, 24, Without a Trace).

DirectorGlendyn Ivin
DOPToby Oliver ACS
ProductionRoss Allsop, John Edwards, Jane Liscombe
Production CompanySouthern Star, Network Nine

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