Movie Chunuk Bair was adapted from Maurice Shadbolt's acclaimed 1982 play Once on Chunuk Bair. This behind the scenes documentary contains interviews with key figures behind the film, including first-time director Dale Bradley and British actor Robert Powell (star of Jesus of Nazareth), who plays Kiwi soldier Frank South. Making a war movie is tough at the best of times; the doco reveals the long hours and tight constraints faced by this production which filmed largely at Avalon Studios, with the Wainuiomata coastline filling in for Turkey's Suvla Bay.