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ANZAC Girls is an Australian television drama series that first screened on ABC1 on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Alexandria, Lemnos, and the Western Front during the First World War. [1]
Pages in category "Australian World War I films" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
During WW1, the paths of an officer in the English secret service and a German spy converge in Gibraltar. D P 1930 US Anybody's War: Lloyd Corrigan: Two blackfaced men and their dog get talked into joining WW1 C 1930 US The Dawn Patrol: Howard Hawks: RFC pilots on the Western Front A 1930 US Doughboys: Edward Sedgwick: A, C 1930 US Half Shot at ...
Australian filmmakers were at the forefront of cinema and film, having created what is considered the first feature-length narrative film with the release of The Story of the Kelly Gang and other early films by directors John Gavin, W. J. Lincoln and Alfred Rolfe. Notable Australian films of the 1890s:
The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell is a 1916 Australian silent film starring John Gavin about the execution of nurse Edith Cavell during World War I. Although one of the most popular Australian silent movies ever made, it is considered a lost film .
Anzacs (named for members of the all volunteer army formations) is a 1985 Australian five-part television miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion (Australia) of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder of the war.
Sister Kenny is a 1946 American biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment. The film stars Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, and Philip Merivale.
The first film made of Cavell's life story was the 1916 Australian silent film The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell soon followed by Nurse Cavell later the same year. In 1918 John G. Adolfi directed The Woman the Germans Shot, starring Julia Arthur as Cavell; In 1925 Eva Elwes wrote a play Edith Cavell, Nurse and Martyr. It was refused a licence by ...