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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
4) Cataclysm
In this episode, we continue the story of what made 1917 the costliest year in terms of human life in our military history.
One of the most notorious killing fields of WWI - Passchendaele. We walk where the battalions fought and where the artillery sank in liquid mud. In the midst of the battle one of Australia's greatest soldiers, then Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Morshead, wrote "things are bloody, very bloody". The losses were enormous - on October 12th the New Zealand Division lost 2,800 men, the bloodiest day in that country's military history.
