Posts Tagged ‘filmographic tribute’

ANZAC Day Filmographic Tribute – Sword of Honour

Movies | Posted by Dean
Apr 25 2011

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute


At 21 Tony Lawrence won the Military Academy’s Sword of Honour. At 22 he was fighting in Vietnam. With his best friend and brother-in-law Frank Vittorio, Tony was sent to Vietnam just as the war began to escalate. The horrors and carnage of the war leave an indelible impression on the two young men – ripping them apart from their families, girlfriends and country. Back home after the devastation and ugly battlefields, both try to cope with life in their own way. For Tony wandering into the wilderness is one way of coming to terms with the horror he has experienced. A wandering that takes him back to the killing fields where it all started.

ANZAC Day Filmographic Tribute – The Odd Angry Shot

Movies | Posted by Dean
Apr 25 2011

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute


A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

ANZAC Day Filmographic Tribute – Breaker Morant

Movies | Posted by Dean
Apr 25 2011

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute


During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

ANZAC Day Filmographic Tribute – Beneath Hill 60

Movies | Posted by Dean
Apr 25 2011

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute


The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward. It’s 1916 and Woodward must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines. Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel system packed with enough high explosives to change the course of the War.

ANZAC Day Filmographic Tribute – Kokoda

Movies | Posted by Dean
Apr 25 2011

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute

ANZAC Day filmographic tribute


A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

NOTE: I will be watching this on the day.