Van Diemen's Land is a 2009 Australian thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania.

A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Sarah Island penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, as Tasmania was then known (until 1856), escape into the wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east.

[4] Former urban dwellers, the English, Irish and Scottish convicts realize that not only are they lost,[5] but they do not even know how to hunt or fish.

Hunger and despair forces the group to switch to cannibalism, and the band is separated by a difference in opinion on this.

[6][7] [8] Van Diemen's Land was released in Australian cinemas on 24 September 2009, and was rated MA15+ for "strong violence and coarse language".