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Stronger Since the War? is a 1964 Australian documentary film which examines the status of women in Japan following World War 2. It was created by the ABC as part of their contribution to Intertel (The International Television Federation).
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 ...
A Place to Call Home is an Australian television drama series, created by Bevan Lee for the Seven Network, which premiered in 2013. [1] Set in rural New South Wales after World War II, it follows Sarah Adams (Marta Dusseldorp), who has returned to Australia after twenty years abroad to start a new life and ends up clashing with wealthy matriarch Elizabeth Bligh (Noni Hazlehurst).
The Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) was a non-medical women's service established in Australia during the Second World War. Raised on 13 August 1941 to "release men from certain military duties for employment in fighting units" [ 1 ] the service grew to over 20,000-strong and provided personnel to fill various roles including ...
Australian Flying Officer reunites in Sydney with Canadian bride and daughter in 1945.. War brides are women who married military personnel from other countries in times of war or during military occupations, a practice that occurred in great frequency during World War I and World War II.
These included the Women's Transport Corps, Women's Flying Club, Women's Emergency Signalling Corps and Women's Australian National Services. [1] In July 1940 in Brisbane alone there were six different organisations providing women with war-related training, the largest of which was the Queensland-based Women's National Emergency Legion. [2]
The film covers the evolution of second-wave feminism in Australia. [1] It includes footage taken by ASIO , as well as actor Sigrid Thornton , then aged 12, waving a women's liberation flag with her mum, Merle , who started the movement in Brisbane when she chained herself to a pub counter in which women were not allowed to drink.
Sisters of War is a telemovie based on the true story of two Australian women, Lorna Whyte, an army nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Catholic nun from New South Wales who survived as prisoners of war in Papua New Guinea during World War II. [1] Sisters of War was written by John Misto, produced by Andrew Wiseman and directed by Brendan ...