During the 1940s, Nevil Shute had a steady job as an engineer in the British military but in his spare time, he wrote novels that were being well-received. Once the war was over, Shute choose to move to Australia and focus on writing, soon becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. His novel On The Beach, particularly hit a chord with the international community, depicting the impact of global nuclear destruction. This documentary studies Shute's career and the adaptation of his most famous novel into a feature film in Melbourne, as his predictions of a post-Hiroshima world seem to be foreboding in their accuracy.

• DirectorLawrence Johnston
• Release26 July 2013
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration1h 26m
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  7.0
  2 reviews
• Productions

  Film Victoria, Screen Australia, Rough Trade Pictures