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Tagged: soldiers

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Birthday Boy: Manuk, ‘the little soldier’
Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), pretending to shoot a gun, exchanges a few battle cries with his absent father, and throws a rock at a man on a bicycle, who crashes. It is the postman, who nevertheless...
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Gallipoli: 'It's not our bloody war'
The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Gallipoli (1981). Lost in the desert, on their way to join up, Archy (Mark Lee) and Frank (Mel Gibson) discuss politics, patriotism and the reasons for...
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Gallipoli: 'We haven't seen a Turk yet!'
Archy (Mark Lee) and Frank (Mel Gibson), newly arrived on Gallipoli, get a rude education on life and death in the trenches. A human body forms part of the parapet; soldiers take turns at shooting...
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Birthday Boy: Manuk’s magnetic bolt
Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), in anticipation of the coming train, places a steel bolt on the train track and waits for the results. A tank-hauling train passes by, and on examining the now flattened...
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The Odd Angry Shot: 'You reckon we're doing any good by being here?'
Harry (Graham Kennedy) sets Bung (John Hargreaves) straight about the War: the 'commos’ will win and no-one at home in Australia will thank them for going. He tells Dawson (Graeme Blundell) that the...
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Ballarat Patriotic Day Carnival
This is an excerpt from an NFSA product called, Living Ballarat: 1901-1941 (1990).  This clip shows the Ballarat Patriotic Day Carnival on 11 July 1941 to raise funds for British bombing victims....
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The Cowra Breakout: Death is the only way
Stan has been placed in charge of security in the Japanese compound. His friend, Hayashi (Junichi Ishada) begs him to try to reverse the order to move some of the prisoners to another location. Stan...
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The Cowra Breakout: Keeping hold of authority
At the Cowra POW camp, another 100 Japanese prisoners have arrived and pour scorn on their compatriots for having accepted their prison status without a fight to the death for the honour of their...
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The Cowra Breakout: According to the Geneva Conventions
Corporal Stan Davidson (Alan David Lee) is still recovering from his war injury when he’s posted to the prisoner of war (POW) camp at Cowra. He assumes he’ll be guarding Italian prisoners. The camp...
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The Odd Angry Shot: 'Specialists in arson, murder and drinking'
Bung (John Hargreaves), a soldier from another patrol, comes looking for his stolen pack. Harry (Graham Kennedy) extorts a beer payment for his help, but Bung announces he is to join their patrol,...
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