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Inhaling depleted uranium (2005)
Dr Doug Rokke, retired from the US airforce, was sent to clean up the residue of the depleted uranium used in weapons in the first Gulf War. He inhaled uranium and is now dying. He describes how his medical records ... [read more]
Cold return home (2004)
African American ex-servicemen recall returning to prejudice and hatred by white Americans at the end of the Second World War. [read more]
Goodbye sunny New South Wales (c1917)
Soldiers are despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney to encourage recruitment. [read more]
‘Baffled, dismayed and slow to understand’ (2003)
Many of the soldiers who were now POWs had come out of the Depression and hadn’t had much education. For many of them, Changi became their university. [read more]
Pearl Harbor (2000)
Without a declaration of war, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii with 350 aircraft. The unexpected attack destroys 21 US vessels including eight battleships. The USA declares war on Japan. [read more]
‘Our saviours have arrived’ (1995)
As the Battle Hymn of the Republic ('Glory, Glory Hallelujah’) plays on the soundtrack, the American submariners arrive secretly in Fremantle south of Perth, Western Australia. Though deemed 'secret’ everyone knew that the 'Yanks’ were in town. Early in the ... [read more]
HMAS Sydney’s Carley float (2004)
A tiny, war-ravaged liferaft from the HMAS Sydney is our only physical link to Australia’s worst-ever naval disaster. [read more]
‘My mother told me...’ (2007)
A woman recalls the things her mother told her about village life in Cambodia and the onset of war. [read more]
Meet the Squander Bug (1945)
This animated propaganda film from 1945 was used to persuade Australians to invest their savings in the national war chest. The Squander Bug, complete with a large stomach covered in swastikas, is told by Hitler 'Make them waste their money. ... [read more]
‘Don’t drop out’ (1994)
An Australian Korean War veteran recalls assisting an African American soldier and fellow prisoner of war who had been wounded. The other Americans would not help and the Australians assisted the African American to walk on a forced march. If ... [read more]
Anzac Day 1946 (c1946)
This colour home movie clip shows the official Anzac Day parade through central Sydney one year after the end of the Second World War in 1946. [read more]
Air base, Malaysia (c1970)
The camera pans across aircraft at a base in South-East Asia, including RAAF strike planes, a Gloster Javelin interceptor and a Royal Navy helicopter. [read more]
Shame (1984)
Mr Takahara walks around the prison camp. The narration asserts that, to the prisoners, the camp was an alien and unfriendly place and explains Japan’s strong militaristic tradition based on the samurai ethic. In interview, Mr Takahara speaks about the ... [read more]
‘A bullet doesn’t know what colour you are’ (2008)
The Second World War interrupts the fight for Aboriginal rights and many Aboriginal men go to war. Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nations, Professor Bain Attwood and Richard Frankland of the Gunditjmara Nation discuss the issues and implications of ... [read more]
Serbian identity (1997)
Author Dusko Tomic talks about how, on a Paris radio program, he identified as a Serb for the first time. While proud of Serb inventor Nikola Tesla, he expressed shame for the atrocities against humanity carried out during the Bosnian ... [read more]
Palermo 4, Palermo 5 (2004)
Palermo 4, representing 1939, introduces architecture of the period. Palermo 5, representing 1949, shows the after-effects of war on the city’s architecture. [read more]
Mateship in the army (1993)
Over footage of Remembrance Day ceremonies, and archival footage of soldiers in the First World War, surviving ex-servicemen recall the power of mateship and remember their fallen comrades. [read more]
Loading horses on the SS Cornwall (1899)
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry lead some reluctant horses down a ramp to board the SS Cornwall on 31 October 1899 in Brisbane, prior to departing for the Boer War. [read more]
Preparations for the carnival (1952)
A voice-over prompts the question, would you meet your neighbours with warmth and friendship or with bombs? Images of friendly Chinese people are contrasted with the bombs and destruction of war. This then cuts to youth erecting posters for the ... [read more]
‘Let’s try to put it all behind us’ (1988)
Richard Eastwick (Hugo Weaving) has a second son, Richie (Robert Menzies), who has returned from the Second World War a broken man. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese and seems unable to settle to life back in ... [read more]
