Fresh and Exciting

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

You will be happy to know that this series is now available on DVD in Australia. From memory I got mine at EZY DVD. It is nostalgic to see this again but it soon becomes very clear how far we have come in making good TV. This is a good series and even though it seems very dated (which has nothing to do with it being a period drama) I think younger people of today would still like it. My daughter loved it and she is fourteen. She eagerly sat through all the episodes one after the other. It has a very young Jon English, Gerrard Kennedy (was he ever young?) and keep an eye out for Bryan Brown in one of his earliest roles. He played Mary's boyfriend who is killed in the first episode.

Can anyone explain this to me? The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) has a very offhanded response to any email queries about this historical-series... I hope (at least) that the original tapes have been digitized by SOMEBODY, and will eventually be re-released to the public. Any program with a "9.1" score on IMDb has a latent market (on re-release) that "they" are overlooking--aside from the importance of preserving and promoting historical awareness of "history in general"."Against the Wind" would make a stunning companion to *another* overlooked ABC broadcasting mini-series, produced in 1987, "Captain James Cook"--starring Keith Michell-- that was also highly-rated, had extremely high production-values, and has (also) been totally overlooked for the DVD re-issue marketplace.ABC Broadcasting seems to have it's collective corporate "head" stuck in the sand!I hope somebody there "wakes up" and does the legal shuffling to allow BOTH of these fine series to be re-issued worldwide, on DVD.

I can only echo all the previous comments about "Against the Wind".I am in the process of putting together a fan-based web page AND chat forum for Against the Wind which will also include some other fantastic Australian Colonial dramas; "Rush", "Cash and Company" and "Tandarra".I have been researching all 4 shows for some time now and I hope to have something up and running in the next month or so (time permitting).If anyone has any thoughts on what I should include on the site, please drop me a line.I am also starting a chat forum for anyone interested in discussing the four shows, their characters, locations etc.

I first saw this tv-series when I was 6 years old and it still fresh in my memmory. The music and story was fantastic as I remembred it. Now when I'm little older it would be nice to see if my memory is corrct. I'w been asking the Swedish televishion to rerun it but without success, sofar.Right now I'm just hoping for a DVD release.