Charles Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remaining six. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial and was Australia’s official correspondent to the First World War.

In this dramatised documentary, Charles Bean, war correspondent, obsessive historian and reluctant myth maker; tells us all about his remarkable life. From the playing fields of England via the Australian outback, to the maelstrom of the Great War, Charles Bean wrote about life and truth, yet everyone thought he created a myth. He loved Australia the way most people love another person, and as so often happens in love, Australia let him down.