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War Documentary hosted by Neil Pigot and Peter Pedersen, published by History Channel in 2014 - English narration
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In the First World War more than 80 per cent of Australian fatalities occurred on the main battlefield, facing the main force of the enemy. That battlefield was the Western Front. Australians and New Zealanders were continuously engaged in that theatre from early 1916 until the Armistice, late in 1918.
After the horrors of Gallipoli, ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) forces found themselves thrown into World War I's Western Front, where over the next two years they lost five times as many men as they had in Gallipoli. From the Somme to Passchendaele in France to the final victory in 1918, viewers learn the details of the ANZAC contribution to this theater of the war. The series employs maps, photos, and interviews with participants as they provide a meticulous chronological account of events.
ANZAC Battlefields explores in a new and powerfully dynamic way what happened on the battlefields that have taken the heaviest toll on Australian and New Zealand life - the World War One battlefields of the Western Front.
The places have changed very little - the grass has grown back, trees have been planted, perhaps a road lies where before there was none - but no cities have been built on these landscapes. It is still possible to stand and imagine what the Diggers went through. The tactics, the deployment, the plans of battle but also what actually happened, moment by moment, as the battle unfolded, to individuals we can name and get to know. The combination of computer-generated effects, and explanation and illustration at the actual locations creates a compelling program.
"Anzac Battlefields" tells the story of the ANZACs on the Western Front, from their first engagement in a small trench raid until their final triumph as an integral part of the "100 Day" advance that led to victory. Through graphics, archive, oral history and travels across the scenes of past battles, Neil Pigot (For Valour, Breaker Morant: The Retrial) and eminent military historian Dr. Peter Pedersen explain where, why and how the ANZACs fought in France and Belgium almost 100 years ago.
Directed by Serge Ou ; A Wildbear Entertainment and Screen Australia Production for Foxtel History Channel
2) Sacrifice
In this episode, the focus for the ANZACs is on a place forever associated with the Western Front, the Somme.
Industrial warfare at its most terrifying, gas, tanks, machine guns, barbed wire, the Anzacs find themselves fully acquainted with the texture of war on the Western Front in a series of murderous battles at Pozieres where the Australians lose 12,000 men. At Flers in the battle of the Somme the New Zealanders experience great success advancing 2.5 kilometres but the price was high the loss of 2000 casualties.
