ONCE UPON A TIME IN PUNCHBOWL (2014)

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Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl
A journey to call Australia home
Documentary
June 19, 2014 - Present
Returning Series
|1 Season, 4 episodesAustralia
English
SBS
Tells the inside story of the challenges the Lebanese Australian community has faced in Australia and how they have fought to overcome them. This landmark documentary series hears from community leaders, police, families and individuals, as they combine to tell the compelling and dramatic story of a proud and resilient community, under intense pressure and scrutiny. The story begins in the 1970s when large numbers of Lebanese migrants flooded into Australia. Many were Muslim, most were traumatised by civil war, all were desperate to build a better future. Over the coming decades, these new Australians struggled to establish a new life in their adopted country.