While not strictly a documentary by any means- The film is based on the story of Alexander Pearce. Who Led a group of transported convicts into the Tasmanian wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east. Their enthusiasm and bravado soon give way to hunger, which saps their strength and causes them to despair. Former urban dwellers, the English, Irish and Scottish convicts realise that not only are lost, but they do not even know how to hunt or fish. They eventually resort to cannibalism, killing and eating the weakest members of the group to survive.
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