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While the Men are Away

  • 2023
  • Returning Series
  • Drama
  • 1 season
  • 4.0/10

While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm – but can the improbable freedom and kinship they find survive beyond the war?

Latest: Season 1 · 2023

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  1. E1. Get Behind The Girl He Left Behind!

    Sep 27, 2023 · 26m

    In 1940s Australia, the men are off fighting in WWII and Frankie finds herself in charge of her farm. She decides to enlist the help of two city dwellers to keep it running.

  2. E2. Furrowing the Führer's Brow

    Sep 27, 2023 · 26m

    All hands are needed as an insect infestation threatens the apple crop; Frankie tries to secure pesticide, but runs into a series of obstacles.

  3. E3. God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It!

    Oct 4, 2023 · 27m

    The group discovers that their internal baggage is as powerful as the patriarchy at blocking the road to their true selves.

  4. E4. She Talked! This Happened!

    Oct 4, 2023 · 27m

    The gang are faced with a profound moral issue that clashes with their attitudes, and realise they will have to let go of the things that no longer serve them to be able to survive.

  5. E5. Come And Join The Victory Harvest!

    Oct 11, 2023 · 29m

    Outside forces threaten the group's new-found bond, testing their strength and threatening to split them apart.

  6. E6. Catch Him With His Panzers Down!

    Oct 11, 2023 · 28m

    The group gains insight into a classic coercive tool of the patriarchy and uses it, only to discover that the repercussions for using are brutal.

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