"Anzacs: The War Down Under" (1988) - Amazing WW1 Australian Feature Film
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- Following the lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) during World War I -- The expertly crafted, classic 1980s TV Movie follows them from the 1915 battle of Gallipoli, to the brutal trenches of France during the 1916 Somme battles, the 1917 Arias and Vimy Ridge battles to the final 1918 German offensives and the final victory drive as well as the hardships, mid-adventures and the casualties of friends encountered by each one.
Featured in the cast as a military man is Paul Hogan. It was Hogan's new-found international stardom in 1986's "Crocodile Dundee" which sparked the American distribution of this version of "Anzacs," two years after its initial 1985 Australian run. This transfer from a U.S. VHS video release is edited down from the 10-hour Australian miniseries.
"Anzacs: The War Down Under" (1985) - Episode 1:
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Produced after the success of "Gallipoli" (1981), and precedes "The Lighthorsemen" (1987). Recurring themes include the Australian identity, such as mateship and larrikinism, the loss of innocence in war, and also the continued coming of age of the Australian nation and its soldiers (the ANZAC spirit). Starring Andrew Clarke, Mark Hembrow, Megan Williams, Paul Hogan, Jon Blake and Christopher Cummins.
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My grandfather fought along side some of these "ANZACS", he was proud to, as he said in his own words that they fought like lions and never backed out of a fight........
My grandfather lied about his age and joined up at 14 , he went the entire war , shot twice , blown up twice and gassed , he was a sgt at 16 ( they thought he was ,20) . He came home to a land fit for heroes and was shoved straight back down the pits , how he survived i have no idea , I have his full papers . These men were giants , lions , heroes all , we must never forget , ever .
Honestly... They were people too mate. And that we often forget. Especially by the men leading these lions. It's much easier to dehumanize a hero than dehumanize a person.
It's of all times, I see homeless veterans of the Kosovo and African interventions here in the streets too. It's a disgrace, especially in 2023
@@thomasvandevelde8157 I understand that only too well, I am a retired 20 year retired serviceman and have experienced everything you say first hand .
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War's a racket a veteran once said, a big racket, and he was right. It's a downright disgrace what I've seen here. Worst of all is, all these people get thrown out of psych wards and homeless shelters because they can't handle their shellshock. You'd expect some training in this regard when you run a psych ward, but no. Files were falisied, claims made up about so-called agression, and this person was sent "home". And my testimony was never taken into acount, neither that of 3 other people who vouched for him. All this because the night-staff decided to encircle him with 4 male nurses in a small corridor because he refused to take his pills. With a close-quarters combat veteran, you can guess what happened next. Oh, he didn't have a home, so I wrote "home" because the street was all he had from there on out. And this is just one of many stories I oversaw personally. I could write a whole book about it. @@user-fz2we1gw8n
Same thing happened to my two uncles from Melbourne. Shot, blown up and gassed. After a hospital tent rest in Egypt, they went on to the Western front. Again, to survive and come back home.
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, it ranks up there with the greatest war movies of all time. Awesome. Well done.
It’s a load of corny rubbish.
If that is how you like your propaganda.
It is crap
Never met an Aussie i didnt like. Good humored or mybe i just found um UM Humorous. Either way i've always enjoyed and clicked with them. 🤝
@englishalan: It’s got Crocodile Dundee in it! How DARE you?
One of the best Australian tv mini series ever made
Thank you So much!! I love the Australians. They don’t get the credit they deserve. This is great.
@@highcountrydelatite Except when they ran away casting away their arms at Singapore.
It is a pile of carbage
I watched it and was not impressed. It neither showed the horrors of war or the real characters of the Anzacs. It was cheesy Hollywood style rubbish that made light of a terrible war. As for the Anzacs being the most feared divisions on the Western Front or Gallipoli I would dispute that and say an Indian division with Gurkha regiments were more feared.
@victorianhighcountry What does having served got anything to do with WW1?. You don't need to serve to study military history. As a matter of fact I was in the Royal East Anglians Royal Artillery, TA not that makes a blind bit of differencell. Serving does not give you any credibility when talking about events that took place before you were born.
@@highcountrydelatite So what battles did you fight in in World War One?
I watched the whole series when it was posted here, and except for having to use Closed Captions to understand what they were saying, it was such an impressive series. 10 out of 10. The anniversary movies and series made when Gallipoli hit 100 in Australia and New Zealand were equally as brilliant and great watches.
Ya I would have had a hard time understanding some of what they were saying if I hadn't fought alongside the Australians in Afghanistan and learned some of the slang and all that. Always loved the Ozzie's. Didn't much care for the French Canadians though.
Sad and pointless as the war was,this must rate as one of the best portrayals of how Australian men sacrificed their lives towards the British war effort because they felt obliged to the Crown.Many brave men died in the trenches,while gaining a few hundred meters.Good cast and well acted.Thanks for screening.❤
Also shed some light on the ineptness and arrogance of British officers, and their low opinion of any "colonial troops". Making someone an officer based on his social standing is absolutely idiotic
It's called standing with kith and kin similarly with WW2 and some wars after that, and most Aussies of the day were quite keen to get involved. Yes, it was a slaughter alright.
Good movie, I watched it quite a bit in the 80's.
Worthy of note, it was Churchill who organized Gallipoli. On it being a disaster in which he also lost many a personal friend saw him resign his position to volunteer to fight on the western front where he was the c/o of a battalion of the Royal as it's Fusiliers.
Yes the ANZACs did well and deserve to be better represented than they were in this carbage.
What did they forget on Turkish soil to go fight the Turks in their homeland? Who were they serving other than the British imperialists?!!
The 10hr mini series is worth watching. Its my fave mini series.
Just great. Full heroic actions. Thanks for loading it!
What a great Australian movie. Shows the true Aussie spirit. ❤❤❤❤
For other good movies, there's Gallipoli, The Lighthorse Men, ANZAC Girls and Canakkale, from the Turkish side...
What a great mini series this was.
Checkout Combat 1963
@@asagoodfriend Seen it, but to much Holywood. Those guys must have fought in Normandy for years....
@@Lassisvulgaris Hermano...Combat is leagues above the entire Hollywood!🌟
@@asagoodfriend Good in it's own way, and above the entire Hollywood. But many countries are far above Hollywood....
It us utter rubbish. No where dies it protray the horror of war or do the real ANZACs credit.
In reality this was senseless slaughter on a grand scale on both sides. Based on faulty knowledge of the terrain, one of Winston Churchill’s major blunders, and look what it cost. Young men at the start of their lives believing in King & Country. I am a Pom who left the UK in ‘68 for a better life ‘down under’, I have never been disappointed-not even for one day. The ANZACS were in a league of their own-I weep with the rest every ANZAC Day. What a terrible waste.
Thanks for editing it down to a feature
That was a bloody good watch I haven't seen it in 30 odd years bravo
Never heard of this. I look forward to watching it.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you.
Surely this series is the definitive telling of the Great War experience, from its soldiers and citizens through its communities and country.
Definitive my arse. Any film about WW1 that does not mention the British Army and the French Army not mention the American army and the blockading of German ports by the Royal Navy is by definition rubbish.
Yes watched the series many years ago, bloody great show.... Aussie... Aussie... Aussie
Pat is the best character hands down! 😂😂
Nice one Hoges. Comedy relief when needed.
I’ve never seen so many handsome men in one movie. I cried at the end. Men start wars and men have to stop them. It’s so sad.
Actually coward politicians start wars and MEN have to stop them.
Yes. It's sad. This is a great movie.😮
دوست عزیز حرف شما کاملا متینه درستش اینه که جنگ رو پیر مردها شروع میکنن و جوان ها باید برن کشته بشن..چون تمام رهبران و شاهان کشورها پیرمرد هستن.با تصمیمات اشتباه اونا کلی از مردم الکی کشته میشن..و این جنگ هرگز پایان نخواهد یافت. مثل الان که روسیه به اوکراین حمله کرده و مردم بی گناه چه کشته میشن و آواره کشورهای دیگه.این واقعا ناراحت کننده هست
Old men start them…
@@RaymondGoettler. Its a load of nonsense. The British army is hardly mentioned when Britain had five armies from 1915/16 to the end. Predictable Australian bullshit.
Thanks!
Ive watched this series 3 or 4 times....great series
I watched this when it first came out last century and must say that I liked it better as a mini-series. In this format, it just flies by too bloody fast.
OMG! It IS Amazing WW1 Australian Feature Film! 😀
A veryy good serie.
I had the pleasure of crossing paths, and serving with. some great soldiers from Down Under in Vietnam. They were still upholding the tradition of being magnificent warriors. The NVA and Viet Cong feared them even more than the ROK Marines.
really? i heard the ROK guys were pretty full on. my great grandfather was a western australian 10th light horseman and grandfather was in north africa as well in WW2. he didnt make it to the pacific after being injured and sent home. they stole a truck and crashed it. members of the 10th LH accidently accepted the surrender of Damascus which is why you dont see any battle for it in the movie "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA". its a pretty funny story.
@@danielponiatowski7368 Probably untrue.
@@anthonyeaton5153 no its quite accurate, they were told not enter the city and wait for lawrence and his band of arabs. a unit was sent to get after the turks and germans who were retreating out the back way. they got lost in the old narrow streets but came out into a plaza or such with large government building. the idea was to get directions when a bunch of officials came out and the officer went inside with them then returned with the surrender document and big grin. he made some statement about going down in history with alexander the great, pharaoh wotshisname and darius i think.
They still wore those kick ass hats in 1972.
Great movie, good bless Australia.
A rare series that stands the test of time. Others that came after pale in comparison.
If you like this, then you should watch the actual mini series episodes. There are five, hour and a half long episodes that you can watch on here. They cut a lot of stuff out to fit it in this three hour movie format. It is one hundred percent worth it.
Partly filmed near Beverage north of Melbourne. One of the producers - Dixon was a Lt Col in the Aussie Army, CO of one of the most historic regiments in the Army, 4/19 Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment. Two films have been made of PWLH ancestor regiments Gallipoli and Lighthorsemen. The company that provided the arms for ANZACs is still in business - Warwick Firearms and still servicing the Film and TV industry. Actress Megan Williams died so young at the age of 43.
Very good movie. I am from Sarajevo,and I was in one war.
Proud to be an Aussie.
The Gallipoli landing was filmed on Phillip island in Victoria.
If the original VHS set can be located, this has behind the scenes stories on the making of the series including interviews with key figures. Producers were very keen to have Hogan in the series for the comic ocker element.
No words needed. * * * * *
Yeah the awful waste still echoes through Australia today I can tell you. We watched this series on TV as kids in the 80s..it was pretty authentic and made on a small budget I imagine.
It is still rubbish. Open your mind to real military history not just Aussie history.
@@anthonyeaton5153 I'm over little mouthpieces like you giving off nasty little comments at people you don't know. Seriously, go away.
Well done on the edit, champion - however there's quite a few scenes missing from the series.
Movie night tonight boys . Get your popcorn,beer, and weed ready for a chill Friday night
Weed is the most important, I think. Best regards from Brazil.
I had a great uncle that was gassed in the first World War and I would play with his children 😎
How can you remember any of the film after killing all those brain cells?
@@TheRadioAteMyTV with deez nuts foo
What great movie respect to all Anzacs who fought gave their lives in great war and WW2
Excellent film
Classic fantastic!
A pity this mini series was re edited in the wrong order.
Great watch,as I did back when it first came out,but full of inaccuracies and stereotypes.British officer ranks were,by that time in the war,full of men who had come up through the ranks via battlefied commisions.The Aussies helped stop the 1918 German offensive,but did not do so on their own.Many British units literally fought to the last man,and French units were heavily involved as well. In the August 1918 counter offensive,it was the British Army that inflicted the hardest blows on the Germans,with the Australians playing their part.
The entertainment industry is full of people who vote and speak for "the people". Thus the constant stereotyping of the upper classes.
Well the Aussies in my opinion did the most out of every country in ww1
Great soldiers. Salute!
It was a magnificent series, but has been chopped about, many good bits cut out
pure class
The King, The Empire, Australia .. love it. Wish we had that patriotism now
ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Service Core...They have fought alongside the Americans in every war since the 1t world war, yes ww2, Korea, Vietnam, the gulf, etc, etc, etc...
This was a TV series, 10 episodes I think. Editing it down to 2 hours 44 minutes cuts out a lot of the story.
A remember this on British TV great film I thought it was in 1985 but it was later in 1988
Está na hora de ser lançado um filme novo Australiano da Grande guerra mundial!
Salute from South Africa 🇿🇦🫡
What ageat movie well done Australia.
The Aussies were crack fighters during WW2 too, refusing to give up in Tobruk, North Africa, a real thorn in Rommel's side. It must have been real hell having to serve under elitist class British officers so daft, you knew they were going to get you killed. This was a great film. Hogan was really fun to watch.
And running away at Singapore casting away their arms then going on the rampage then leaving the Indian and British troops in the front line.
They served under their own officers ffs....
@@anthonyeaton5153 In the campaign in Malaya the Australians made up 13 per cent of the British Empire's ground forces, they suffered 73 per cent of its battle deaths. Some Australian soldiers did act badly when Singapore was going down the drain, but you see the same thing happening on the losing sides in many battles, even in the 2nd World War. Don’t tar every Australian fighting man with the same brush.
@@bryanbird1266 I don’t tar every Australian I get fed up with the constant trumpet blowing. We all know your fought bloody hard and bravely but so did others. You never mention the biggest ground defeat of the Japs was delivered by the British and Indian 14th Army in Burma. At Singapore the Australians were abysmal going on the rampage looting raping and pillaging and being deserted by their commander Gordon Bennett. Shameful. You always talk of the Australian infantry man,but never mention artillery air power and naval power or logistics. Get balance right.
One of the best, but I am afraid ruined by cutting short
Off to join up, big adventure. I wonder how many would have gone, had they known what awaited them? So, so sad. RIP the millions 😢.
Stone the crows sport... fair crack of the whip!
Promessas de Guerra é ótimo.
Very good film.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Called ‘Anzacs’ in Australia
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I've always thought Gallipoli was a big mistake and a waste of thousands of lives.
I could only understand every 3rd or 4th word but I guess it's an ok movie.
Seeing what is happening to Australia since 2020 it makes me wonder where have the real men gone in that country.
Don’t make them like this now great film 🎥
Bloody horrible what they did to these young me.
I want to ask a question: What were the Anzacs doing in Gallipoli?
Trying to cut off the Bosporos Strait (Dardanelles) capture Constantinople (Istanbul), and force Turkey od the war.
@@Lassisvulgaris In this case, they will bear the consequences of all this without crying or complaining. You will come to Anatolia from thousands of kilometers away, threaten Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and then show yourself innocent. This can only be laughed at.
@@Netko733 "YOU will come to Anatolia" and "Show YOURSELF innocent"? Who is "you" in this case...?
And yes, that opreation was doomeed from the beginning, but it was the birth of Australia as an independent nation. What happened to the Ottoman Empire...?
Turks do not live only in Anatolia, they are everywhere from the Balkans to the Great Wall of China. As for the Ottoman Empire, yes, it has not existed for 100 years, but instead, Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK and his friends founded the REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, and it will live forever.
Dying because of British high command incompetence
Not a clear copy😢
This series was released in 1985 check your information first please
Looks like stars and writers of soaps made a war movie
Sadly, it really WAS that messed up.
Do not watch this film edit. Go to the series also available. This edit is terrible
You know i thought bits were missing i found the series still kicking around on you tube thanks for the heads up.
Everywhere you go in New Zealand too, despite the fact this country was never heavily populated , you'll find war memorials to New Zealanders who fought and died with the Anzac troops in some far flung place. Even the smallest farming community that you drive through in a flash of an eye gave up their young for WW1 and WW2 for the "mother country". I don't feel the affection was ever returned in the same degree or really appreciated. British often felt, maybe still do, some disdain for colonials, as being almost British but not quite up to scratch.
Of course there was a Japanese threat over here in the back of beyond in WW2 but these NZ and Aussie men could have sat it out, studied, worked, played cricket and rugby, married, had children, lived a life of security and peace and need only have defended hearth and home. They flew in the battle of Britain, they fought in Europe, in the Pacific, in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia, often deployed to places where heavy losses were expected as they were considered more expendable. Our Maori troops had the reputation of being great fighters but with the prevailing racism of the day were also often relegated to latrine digging.
There were so many Anzacs buried in Berlin's WW2 war cemetary in Charlottenburg but they are always overlooked, people think of Britain battling on alone, the huge manpower the USA brought into the war effort, the Russians of course who probably suffered more than any other country did, at least their death toll was the highest. Yet Canadians fought, Indians fought, Africans fought. It was world wide carnage and the fight against a predatory, racist state and its allies was fought by nations seeped in their own prejudice towards each other and racism was everywhere, not just in Nazi Germany. I'm thankful I was not alive for it all.
original is 8 hours movie is short version
Original was top notch!
why did you cut so much out this was a great mini series that you have butchered
Please read the description. This is the TV movie that was released in the United States and I believe the UK in 1988. This was a cutdown version of the miniseries for television. This was done a lot in the 80s where they would cut a miniseries into a single feature film. The entire miniseries is available on this channel if you take a look at our other videos. This was cut down 30 years ago by the producers in order to sell it as a TV movie standalone.
A little heavy handed on the "bloody stupid pom officers".
But only a little.
See: The Donkeys. (Book), but keep a sick-bag handy.
Mrs bloody Jessup.. 😉
Very gung ho era ...white feathers for cowardice
The empire had strong ties then!
war hmm
As always, Another Australian glory story.
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This was a great mini series, completely ruined by this re editing
Do not watch this film edit. Go to the series also available. This edit is terrible.
Made for TV. Your title should read WWI, with the latin I not figure 1. You can't be that ignorant?
sad....very unsharp movie
21:49, how are the Turks shooting the blokes climbing the cliff, when there’s no Turks visible, at the cliff top?
It's called *firing from cover*.
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Bit to much ocka here , corny as hell .
I totally agree so inaccurate.
yep - it was cringeworthy when it came out but it came out just as Australia was becoming a more sophisticated country. That said, its not inconsistent with the people of the time. When I was a kid the old men of that era were just as corny.
the most silly thing Aussie have done. fighting and dying in a war totally has no conflicts to them, only for the interests of others, simply a silly tragic waste of lives.
I'll continue to stick with documentaries these reanctment films are not as good as a doc. I have seen the 1990's film Stalingrad twice but have watch dozens of documentaries about the battle of Stalingrad and will watch more in the future. I will not be watching Stalingrad again.
They work together if you allow them. And watching documentaries without then following up with actual reading material leaves you in near the same boat as just watching the biopic. Documentaries leave out plenty too and keep what they like just as much as biopics do, for that matter so do articles and books, so the old rule still applies, the more sources the better.
Try the tv series Gallipoli from 2015. Extremely historically accurate drama series about the Australian involvement in that campaign.
@@tileux Excellent recommendation.
Possibly worse than Braveheart in regards the truth...but watchable entertainment nether the less...
As corny as any one may thing this is, for all the viewers you need to realise that in Europe during WW2, in spite of making up only 10 of the allies forces, the Australians were responsible for 25% of ALL German caualties and 25% of all the land taken from the Germans..........they were also the ONLY all volenteer major army of the war!
You have no idea. Where did you get that fiction from??? Read up on Russia. Australias commitment in WW2 was not huge.
actually the RIGHT information was in WW1, however as to committment in WW2 YOU have NO idea, indeed for a population of only 7 million, at the end of the war it wound up with the either the 4th largest Naavy and /or airforce in the world or there abouts...so it would seem YOU have no idea what you are talking about. Also to FIRST soldiers in WW2 to defeat both the Germans AND the Japanese, so once again YOU have NO idea what YOU are talking about. I like that , iot has a ring to it!@@dulls8475
I think he meant WW1, but even there he exaggerates. The figures he cites apply only to the very last phase of the war, and then only to the British Empire forces; they don't include the French Army. Australian ground forces were not involved at all in Europe in WW2 except in Greece. In 1942 all were withdrawn from the Mediterranean theatre and redeployed for the defence of Australia against Japan.@@dulls8475
@@dulls8475 LOL - "Australia's committment in ww2 was not huge":
First land defeat of german forces: Tobruk - held by the Australian 9th division
Defeat of French foreign legion in Syria - Australians (I forget which division)
First land defeat of Japan Imperial forces - Milne Bay, and various battles along the Kokoda track, including Kokoda, Isiravu and culminating in the battle of the beachheads, 3 brutal sieges of japanses forces dug in that became so bad the japanese resorted to eating the dead: Buna, Gona, Sanananda. You might be guessing the pattern by now: Australians.
Followed up by brutal campaigns in Papau New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Phillipines to clear japanese forces from there.
At sea, the Australian navy had numerous victories in the mediterranean and fought across the pacific. The first ship to be targeted by the japanese fleet and to erupt in a huge search lighted explosion at the Battle of Savu Island was the HMAS Canberra.
THe 8th division fought hard at Singapore until eventually surrendered by the british commanders of Singapore.
Australians played a pivotal role at El Alemain. Australians were also very much responsible for wiping out the german paratrooper divisions on crete. Although that was a combined effort the Australian enthusiasm for killing elite german forces was noted then and afterwards - and rightly so.
Australians served in high numbers in the RAF throughout ww2, especially in bombers. Prime minister John Gorton was an raf veteran of ww2
Australians turned the tide of the allied war in every theatre they fought in - and unlike every other allied force, individual Australian soldiers fought from greece, through north africa and the middle east as well as across the south pacific. Australians who killed germans and italians in north africa also killed japanese in the south pacific. Contrary to your claim, no other fighting force members on ANY side have that distinction.
As for the russians in ww2, since they helped the germans start the war by agreeing to divide poland with the nazis the russians got what they deserved in that war.
@@tileux So a minor part say compared to the Russians. Usual jingoistic clap trap about how they won the war. Did you know many Brits ended up all over the world. I will rephrase what I said. The Australian contribution to the second world war was small in comparison to other nations. Obviously I take it for granted that the Australian contribution was far larger than the British contribution. To think the world would be speaking German now if it was not for Australia. Happy?
Respect to the Australians and new Zealanders
For those who want the full series its here ruclips.net/video/ftjvM8LsNZo/видео.htmlsi=lIjheVOgE0UcsPAd but thank you lionheart filmworks for reming me what a great series this is well worth watching again.