Van Diemen's Land

Hunger is a strange silence

A harrowing true-crime survival story about desperation and moral collapse in a remote penal colony, where hunger and isolation strip away humanity.

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.