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=== Film === * The 2008 film ''[[The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce]]'' tells the true story of [[Alexander Pearce]] through his final confession to fellow Irishman and colonial priest Philip Conolly. The film was nominated for a Rose d'Or, an [[Irish Film and Television Award]], an [[Australian Film Institute Award]] and won an [[IF Award]] in 2009. * The 2009 film ''[[Van Diemen's Land (film)|Van Diemen's Land]]'' follows the story of the infamous Irish convict Alexander Pearce and his escape with seven other convicts. * The 2011 Australian drama film ''[[The Hunter (2011 Australian film)|The Hunter]],'' about a shadowy corporation that sends a mercenary to [[Tasmania]] to track down a [[thylacine]], a supposedly extinct animal whose genetic code holds the secret to a dangerous weapon. * The 2013 ABC telemovie ''[[The Outlaw Michael Howe]]'' is set in Van Diemen's Land and tells the story of bushranger [[Michael Howe (bushranger)|Michael Howe]]'s convict-led rebellion. * The 2018 film ''[[Black '47 (film)|Black '47]]'' directed by [[Lance Daly]] and set in Ireland during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Irish Famine]] depicts a judgement imposed on a farmer for theft by a judge in the province of [[Connemara]], which includes six months of hard labour and subsequent penal transportation to Van Diemen's Land. * The 2018 film'' [[The Nightingale (2018 film)|The Nightingale]]'' is set in Van Diemen's Land in 1825 and depicts a female Irish convict taking revenge for the murder of her family by the [[colonial forces of Australia]] as the [[Black War]] breaks out. <!-- Wikipedia is not for indiscriminate lists of examples. Please do not add examples based on a mere "mention" of the article subject. -->
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