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Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies (The Great War - episode 24)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The First World War in the Middle East. British capture Basra and mount an unsuccessful campaign toward Baghdad. Ottomans fail to capture Suez, but check the British advance in Palestine. Britain enco...F00192-03
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---- And we were young (The Great War - episode 26)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The First World War's end. Allied offensives in the West continue, United States President Woodrow Wilson offers Fourteen Points as peace terms. Germany's allies capitulate after defeats on other fro...F00192-04
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ANZAC (Australians at war)
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Maker: Channel Ten Sydney
Looking at Gallipoli then (1915) and now (1976). Naval lead up to the landing and the loss of the RAN submarine AE2. Gallipoli scenes, Turkish attack, truce for burial and the withdrawal.F08001
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Gallipoli (The Anzac story)
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Maker: Hunter, Frank
A documentary on the Gallipoli campaign making extensive use of photographs, art works, terrain models and dioramas to tell the story. Devised and produced by Frank Hunter in co-operation with the Aus...F10064
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Introductory episode (Australians at war)
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Maker: Channel Ten Sydney
The birth and growth of the Anzac spirit from Eureka Stockade to Gallipoli to Vietnam.F08000
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On the idle hill of summer (The Great War - episode 1)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
Profiles of the five European powers engaged at war's start: German Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom, Russian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. The Balkan Wars and the assassination of Franz F...F00192-01
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Please God give us a victory (The Great War - episode 9)
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The Ottoman Empire joins the war on the side of Central Powers. Armenian Genocide and Gallipoli Campaign.F00192-02
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POWs in Australia: as told by an officer of the guard Edmond Samuels (Australia at war 1914-18)
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Maker: Read, Tony Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Edmond Samuels an officer of the guard in Australia during the First World War narrates his experience of the internment camps at Holsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima. The documentary has Edmond Samuel...F11764
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Prelude to glory (The Anzac story)
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Maker: McGrath, James Joseph Hunter, Frank Australian Broadcasting Commission
A brief history of Australia from its discovery by Cook, intending to depict how (white) Australia was formed as an independent country, and how its people were moulded by their environment. It descri...F10063
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The desert column (The Anzac story)
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Maker: Whitechurch, Peter Hunter, Frank
Episode six from 'The Anzac story' television series. A brief history of the part played by Australian Light Horse in the campaigns in the Middle East during the 1914-1918 war. Devised and produced by...F10065
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The Great War - 4 episodes
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Maker: British Broadcasting Corporation
The Great War - 4 episodesF00192
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The road to Armistice (Australians at war)
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Maker: Channel Ten Sydney
General Sir John Monash and the men of the 1st AIF saved the day in March 1918 when the Germans smashed the Allied lines in France.F08004
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The Western Front 1916 (Australians at war)
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Maker: Channel Ten Sydney
New weapons, aircraft, gas, flame throwers and tanks. Verdun, Jutland, the first Somme, Fromelles, Pozieres.F08002
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Ypres and Passchendale (The Anzac story)
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Maker: Sternberg, Doc K Whitechurch, Peter Hunter, Frank Curll, Cliff
Four AIF divisions took part in the abortive and expensive battles of Ypres and Passchendaele in an attempt to drive the Germans from the Flemish coast in 1917. In spite of the appalling and hopeless ...F10066