Gallipoli

Gallipoli 2015

6.80

As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.

2015

Anzacs

Anzacs 1985

6.50

Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war.

1985

ANZAC Girls

ANZAC Girls 2014

7.40

The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

2014

Deadline Gallipoli

Deadline Gallipoli 2015

6.30

Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.

2015

A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life 1986

4.00

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

1986

When We Go to War

When We Go to War 2015

10.00

A historical saga, it tells the story of six young men and women who, in 1914, are full of plans and dreams for the future. Cutting between life at home, Gallipoli and Egypt, this spectacular drama begins in a time of optimism and hope, on the eve of war.

2015

Revealing Gallipoli (2005)

Revealing Gallipoli (2005) 1970

1

An award-winning, in-depth look at what happened on Australia's most revered place of battle. Revealing Gallipoli tells the many remarkable stories of hardship and survival from several different perspectives, taking into account the circumstances and revealing the brutality of warfare.Three engaging presenters, Australian Dr. Peter Stanley,Turk Savas Karakas, and Irishman Prof. Keith Jeffrey roam the battlefields and detail the stories from the places where the decisions were made and the battles took place. With the use of unique three-dimensional photography and maps,listening to vivid accounts of the young men who fought there, Revealing Gallipoli brings the battle alive from each perspective in an effort to fully understand the conflict. Comprehensively documenting the campaign at Gallipoli during the First World War, Revealing Galliploi investigates the very beginnings at the War Council of London, through to the ensuing naval attack, the many subsequent landings and ultimately ...

1970