Irish escape / an Essential Viewing and Crossing the Line Films production for Thirteen/WNET in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Éireann, NSW Film and Television Office, and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ; producer/director: Lisa Harney.
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details
DVD, region 1, widescreen.
Note
Title from container.
Originally produced as an episode of the television series Secrets of the dead.
Performer
Liev Schreiber, narrator.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In 1876, after eight years of incarceration at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, six Irish political prisoners escaped to America on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its courageous and unassuming captain, George Smith Anthony, were part of an ambitious plan to liberate the prisoners. Their story is one of swashbuckling adventure and heroism.
