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This documentary tells the stories of the New Zealand soldiers who were part of the identity-defining Gallipoli campaign in WWI. In the ill-fated mission to take a piece of Turkish coastline, 2721 New Zealanders died with 4752 wounded. As part of research, every one of the then-surviving Gallipoli veterans living in New Zealand was interviewed, with 26 finally filmed. Shot at a barren, rocky Gallipoli before the advent of Anzac Day tourism, this important record screened on Easter Sunday 1984, and won a Feltex Award for Best Documentary.
I still pinch myself that I was involved in the TVNZ documentary Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story. A chance meeting with writer Maurice Shadbolt led to my becoming military adviser to the play Once on Chunuk Bair, which in turn ...
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Beautiful documentry, I loved the part when he found real bullets in the surrounding shrubs. Just inspiring. Really opened my eyes to the true horrors of Gallipoli.
This is an excellent documentary. It gave me a much better understanding of the sheer sacrafice made by our soldiers. These men are absolute heroes, what they went through simply brings me to tears...
While Gallopoli is important from the point of view of us growing into a nation apart from 'mother England' etc etc.. I would like to see more documentary time devoted to Passchendaele in Oct' '17 and the large part that NZ troops took in that and the pivotal battle's NZers were involved in around the Michael offensive and Allied offensives from mid-1918. We really never see anything about that stuff.
I understand that the ANZACS were doing the right thing!!
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Television, 2002 (Full Length)
Director David Blyth interviews his Grandfather about his experience fighting in WWI
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A live broadcast of the dawn service at Waikumete Cemetery
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A profile of the Returned Services’ Association on its fiftieth anniversary
Television, 2001 (Full Length)
Descendents of Gallipoli veterans from both the NZ and Turkish sides return to Anzac Cove
Television, 2008 (Full Length)
New Zealand’s war service remembered
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