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While the Men are Away

2023

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Get Behind The Girl He Left Behind! Sep 27, 2023

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.

EP2 Furrowing the Führer's Brow Sep 27, 2023

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

EP3 God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It! Oct 04, 2023

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

EP4 She Talked! This Happened! Oct 04, 2023

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.

EP5 Come And Join The Victory Harvest! Oct 11, 2023

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

EP6 Catch Him With His Panzers Down! Oct 11, 2023

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.

EP7 We've Always Despised Them, Now We Must Smash Them! Oct 18, 2023

The group experiences life without friction, getting a taste of what life could be like and, when it comes under threat, realizing that it's worth fighting for.

EP8 We Took the Hill, Come and Help Us Keep It! Oct 18, 2023

As the war creeps closer, the group struggles to hold onto their collective dream. They're all forever changed by their time together and the knowledge that they're not alone.
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Synopsis

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?

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Also starring Phoebe Grainer

While the Men are Away
While the Men are Away

Also starring Max McKenna

While the Men are Away
While the Men are Away

Reviews

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.