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Pages in category "Australian World War II films" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Films set on the United States home front during World War II (1 C, 91 P) Pages in category "Films set on the home front during World War II" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The Highest Honour is a 1982 Australian/Japanese co-production [3] about Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau by Z Special Unit during World War II. [4] The same story inspired the TV mini-series Heroes (1988) and Heroes II: The Return (1991).
Kokoda Front Line! was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942, about the Kokoda Track campaign. It was one of four winners of the 15th Academy Awards for best
The Last Bastion is a television mini-series which aired in Australia in November 1984. It is a docudrama telling the story of Australia's involvement in World War II, and its often strained relations with its two main allies, Great Britain and the United States.
Australian troops are later seen in possession of the ridge, with victory signalled by a flare being fired and a victory roll from a P-40 fighter. The film closes with shots from a USAAF B-17 . Shots show Australian infantrymen struggling up a trail, fighting against Japanese troops, then soldiers heroically framed on a mountain top.
Broken Sun is a 2008 Australian film set in 1944 about a World War II veteran who meets an escaped Japanese POW. The story is partly based on the Cowra breakout of 1944. [ 3 ] The film was the debut feature from Brad Haynes.
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film directed by Bruce Beresford, about a group of English, American, Dutch, and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It stars Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Julianna Margulies, Jennifer Ehle, Cate Blanchett, and Elizabeth Spriggs. The film ...