TAGGED: First World War
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This film from c1916 features various wartime fundraising and recruitment activities.

It was shot from outside the General Post Office in Martin Place, Sydney, after rain.

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This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee screening of a

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This still is from the production of the McDonagh sisters film Two Minutes Silence (1932).

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The title consists of two separate items - 'Departure of the Australian Expeditionary Force' and 'Departure of Reinforcements for the Front'.

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We've published footage from 1919 to coincide with the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, as part of the final phase of First World War centenary commemorations.

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A banner proclaiming ‘Honneur et Patrie’ (Honour and Fatherland) appears at the start of this newsreel footage. We then see the Treaty of Versailles, signed by the Allied powers.

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Nurses from the Australian Red Cross serve tea and refreshments to returned soldiers, including those injured and in convalescence.

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The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Gallipoli (1981).

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Archy (Mark Lee) and Frank (Mel Gibson), newly arrived on Gallipoli, get a rude education on life and death in the trenches.

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To mark Remembrance Day 2018, and the centenary of the end of the First World War, the NFSA is screening Peter Jackson's new film, 'They Shall Not Grow Old'.