All titles in the ‘War’ genre
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Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)
A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan ...
Australia in World War 1 (c1980)
A compilation of film footage from the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian War Memorial. Subjects include the home front factories, parades, propaganda ...
Australian Visit (1967)
This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, to Australia in ...
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line (2002)
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of conscripts was still ...
The Battleships (2000)
A four-hour documentary miniseries examining the rise in importance of the battleship from the wooden sailing ships of the Elizabethan age to the dreadnoughts of modern history.
Belsen For Example (1985)
A German film crew interviews survivors, now living in Australia, of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The recollections of the victims and members of the rescue teams are a ...
Breaker Morant (1979)
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian ‘irregular’ soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a ...
Broken Sun (2008)
In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary ...
Cenotaph (1993)
The documentary looks at the effect of the First World War on the New South Wales country town of Hay. Seven women and 641 men went to the ...
Child Soldiers (2002)
There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. ...
Compass – Changi Days, POW Poets (2003)
When 22,000 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese on the Malay Peninsula early in 1942, they disappeared into the vast prison camp called Changi on Singapore ...
Convictions (1994)
The documentary is a series of recollections by the Australian soldiers who served in the Korean War (1950–1953). Forty years after the war, the men talk frankly and ...
Cradle of Creation (1940)
A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, ...
Diggers (1931)
At a battalion reunion after the First World War, Chic Williams (Pat Hanna) and his ‘cobber’ Joe Mulga (George Moon) recall their exploits on the Western Front in ...
Exile in Sarajevo (1997)
An observational documentary as Australian filmmaker Tahir Cambis and Sarajevo local Alma Sahbaz record the last six months of the Bosnian War.
First Victory Home Loan: Squander Bug (1945)
This animated propaganda film urges all Australians to invest in the war effort by putting all their spare money into the first Victory Loan and 4th Liberty Loan ...
Fourth Liberty Loan (1943)
This black-and-white cinema advertisement urges theatre-goers to support the war effort by buying national savings stamps and investing them in the Fourth Liberty Loan.
Gallipoli (1981)
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. ...
Harry’s War (2000)
Harry Saunders (David Ngoombujarra) prepares to go to fight for his country in the Second World War, but his fight is also for the rights of the Indigenous ...
The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)
Will Brown (Guy Hastings) enlists in the Australian Army, soon after the outbreak of the First World War. He puts away his sporting equipment, in favour of more ...
Homelands: View from the Edge (1993)
This documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki follows the Robles family – Carlos, Maria and their four daughters – who came to Melbourne as refugees from El Salvador in ...
Ikara the Weapon Thrower (1963)
This film details the Australian military trials of the Ikara missile, a ship-launched anti submarine missile.
Land Mines – A Love Story (2004)
Shah, a former Mujahideen soldier in Afghanistan, courts a Tajik girl, Habiba, and marries her. The couple have both been the victims of landmines. The wars of the ...
The Legend of Damien Parer (1964)
The life story of the legendary Australian combat cameraman Damien Parer, as seen through the eyes of those who knew him and through the amazing footage that he ...
Maidens (1978)
Maidens is a biographical chronicle. It uses personal archives, made up of still and moving image, from both domestic and vocational sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to ...
Mid-East (1945)
Frank Hurley takes us on a journey to the Middle East and North Africa at the close of the Second World War. He describes aspects of traditional life, ...
No Survivors: The Mysterious Loss of the HMAS Sydney (1993)
On 19 November 1941, the HMAS Sydney, just returned from Europe, was sailing off the coast of Western Australia when she was sunk by the German raider HSK ...
The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
After his 21st birthday, Bill (John Jarratt) goes to fight in Vietnam, as part of the Australian forces. He’s in the Special Air Services, elite professional soldiers who ...
Or Forever Hold Your Peace (1970)
A compilation of events concerning the moratorium to stop the Vietnam War in 1970. The film is an observational documentary without commentary that cuts between meetings, street protests, ...
Public Enemy Number One (1981)
Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and a communist in the ...
Pyongyang Diaries (1997)
Shortly after the death of the country’s leader Kim Il Sung, and again on a return trip two years later in 1996, filmmaker Solrun Hoaas embarked on a ...
Super 8 Soldiers (1991)
In the 1960s a group of Australian conscripts took 8 mm cameras to Vietnam. Super 8 Soldiers intercuts that footage with interviews with the men and their families ...
Terrain Study of Phuoc Tuy Province South Vietnam (1967)
This Army training film looks at the terrain of what was known as South Vietnam, principally in the province of Phuoc Tuy.
Third Liberty Loan: This Is Vital to You (1941)
This black-and-white cinema advertisement produced by the Department of Information in 1941 is a direct appeal from Australia’s Federal Treasurer, JB Chifley, to encourage all Australians to contribute ...
Visit of Deputy PM Forde to UN Conference 1945 (1945)
This film consists of three reels of unedited footage, colour and black-and-white, shot during the 1945 trip of Australian Deputy Prime Minister Francis Forde and Dr HV Evatt ...
