Titles tagged with ‘sailors’

5 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year

Australian Navy: Destroyers documentary – c1930

The capacity of Royal Australian Navy destroyers to carry and launch torpedoes in the 1930s is demonstrated here.

Dogwatch feature film – 1997

This film could almost pass as a 1940s Hollywood studio thriller starring Humphrey Bogart.

The Exploits of the Emden feature film – 1928

A reconstruction of Ken G Hall’s composite film about the destruction of the German warship Emden in November 1914.

For the Honour of Australia feature film – 1916

War melodrama about two brothers in 1915: one joins the navy, the other discovers a German spy ring in Australia and is saved after the Sydney batters the Emden.

Visit of Deputy PM Forde to UN Conference home movie – 1945

Four days after arriving home from the conference, Prime Minister John Curtin died and Forde was sworn in for a brief term as prime minister.