Federation
1999
173 minutes
Overview
An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades leading to Federation. It's a tale of winners and losers, of great debates which unified the country, of the struggle not just to make an Australian nation, but to create Australian democracy.
Top Cast
Deborah Kennedy
Louisa Lawson
Leo McKern
Henry Parkes
Peter O'Brien
Alfred Deakin
William Zappa
Charles Kingston
Richard Piper
Edmund Barton
Shane McNamara
voices
Max Cullen
voices
Kirk Alexander
voices
John Doyle
Narrator