Blue Water Empire (Documentary, English)
Genres: History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2019-06-25
Ended: 2019-07-09
Network: ABC
Country: AU
Airs on: Tuesday
Air time: 20:30
Runtime: 60 minutes
Blue Water Empire is a dramatised documentary series giving new insight into the history and culture of the Torres Strait Islands. The series starts pre-colonisation and charts the impact of European arrival from the missionaries to the influx of people from all around the world during the pearling boom. A thrilling and vital, yet largely unknown, part of our Australian history. The great cast includes Jack Thompson, Ryan Corr, Damian Walshe- Howling and Aaron Fa'aoso.