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Compass – Gallipoli Pilgrimage (2006)

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The pilgrims' progress education content clip 2

Original classification rating: PG. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

This is the pretitle sequence in which the protagonists are sketched for us and the program’s theme established. There’s a young and adventurous backpacker, a soldier and his father and a family who are following the trail of a relative who died at Gallipoli in 1915.

Curator’s notes

by Janet Bell

With only 30 minutes to cover the subject, this is a very efficient way to pitch the audience straight into the story. Twenty thousand Australians made the pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in 2005. This is the story of just a few of them. As the pilgrims draw nearer to Gallipoli, through the use of some really remarkable archival footage, the journey becomes the vehicle through which we learn more about that terrible landing at Anzac Cove in 1915.