Australian Cinema > types > war
Rewi's Last Stand (Rudall Hayward, 1925) Maori War Films Ltd, wr. Rudall Hayward from history, dp Frank Stewart; Frank Nemo, Nola Casselli, M. Millington, Eric Yates, Edmund Finney, Chief Abe (Rewi Maniapoto); the last stand of Rewi Maniapoto at the Battle of Orakau in 1863; remade in 1940 as a sound film by the same director; NZ
Rewi's Last Stand (Rudall Hayward, 1940) aka The Last Stand: An Episode of the New Zealand Wars; Frontier Films Ltd, wr. Rudall Hayward, source Cowan's history, dp Rudall Hayward, Edwin Coubray; Leo Pilcher, Ramai Te Miha, Henare Toka; NZ; 5750ft, 64 min.
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford, 1980)
1915 (Di Drew, Chris Thomson, 1982)
34th Battalion, The (Luke Sparke, 2013)
Accidental Soldier, An (Rachel Ward, 2013)
Australia's Peril (Franklyn Barrett, 1917)
Beneath Hill 60 (Jeremy Sims, 2010)
Canopy (Aaron Wilson, 2013) Khan Chittenden, Robert Menzies, Edwina Wren, Tzu-yi Mo; Singapore, WW2
Chunuk Bair (Dale Bradley, 1991) NZ
Daughter Of The East (Roy Darling, 1924) aka The Boy Of The Dardanelles
Day, The (Alfred Rolfe, 1914) Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company, wr. Johnson Weir from poem by Henry Chappell; war
Exploits Of The Emden, The (Ken G. Hall, 1928)
Fellers (Arthur Higgins, Austin Fay, 1930)
Forbidden Ground (Johan Earl, Adrian Powers, 2013)
Forty Thousand Horsemen (Charles Chauvel, 1940)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir, 1981)
Hero Of The Dardanelles, The (Alfred Rolfe, 1915)
How We Beat The Emden (Alfred Rolfe, 1915) aka Fate of the Emden
If The Huns Came To Melbourne (George Coates, 1916)
Joan of Arc of Loos, The (George Willoughby, 1916)
La Revanche (W. J. Lincoln, 1916) based on Nurse Cavell story
Lighthorsemen, The (Simon Wincer, 1987)
Martyrdom Of Nurse Cavell, The (John Gavin, C. Post Mason, 1916)
Murder Of Captain Fryatt, The (John Gavin, 1917)
Murphy Of Anzac (J. E. Mathews, 1916)
Nurse Cavell (W. J. Lincoln, 1916) aka Edith Cavell
Scars Of Love (Walter S. McColl, 1918) aka Should Children Suffer?
Stolen, The (Geoff Davis, 2014) WW1 drama
Will They Never Come? (Alfred Rolfe, 1915)
William Kelly's War (Geoff Davis, 2014) aka The Stolen, wr. Geoff Davis, prod. Phillip Avalon, dp Damien Beebe; Maureen Alford, Peter Berzanskis, Tony Bonner; WW1 war; Australian release 30 Oct
Within Our Gates (Frank Harvey, 1915) aka Deeds That Won Gallipoli
Absent Without Leave (John Laing, 1993) NZ
Always Another Dawn (T. O. McCreadie, 1947)
Attack Force Z (Tim Burstall, 1982)
Blood Oath (Stephen Wallace, 1990)
Death of a Soldier (Phillipe Mora, 1986)
Desert War (Steve Westh, 2012) aka Desert Rats
Devil's Rock, The (Paul Campion, 2011) NZ
Emma's War (Clytie Jessop, 1988)
Escape And Evasion (Storm Ashwood, 2019) wr. Imogen Thomas; Rena Owen, Firass Dirani, Hugh Sheridan; Burma/Myanmar
Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016) Battle of Okinawa
Home by Christmas (Gaylene Preston, 2010) NZ
Kokoda (Alister Grierson, 2006)
Indecent Obsession, An (Lex Marinos, 1985)
Last Bullet, The (Michael Pattinson, 1995)
Lore (Cate Shortland, 2012)
Paradise Road (Bruce Beresford, 1997)
Parer's War (Alister Grierson, 2014)
Railway Man, The (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2013)
Rats Of Tobruk, The (Charles Chauvel, 1944)
Rebel (Michael Jenkins, 1985)
Soldier's Tale, A (Larry Parr, 1988) France/NZ
Heroes of the Krait (Peter Maxwell, Seiji Moriyama, 1982) aka Southern Cross aka The Highest Honor
War Stories (Gaylene Preston, 1995) NZ
Kapyong (Dennis K. Smith, 2011)
Danger Close: the Battle of Long Tan (Kriv Stenders, 2019) wr. Paul Sullivan, Karel Segers, Jack Brislee, James Nicholas; Travis Fimmel, Richard Roxburgh, Nicholas Hamilton; Vietnam War
Odd Angry Shot, The (Tom Jeffrey, 1979)
Siege of Firebase Gloria, The (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1989)
Street to Die, A (Bill Bennett, 1985)
Balibo (Robert Connolly, 2009) East Timor
Brothers (Terry Bourke, 1982) aka Hounds of War; East Timor
Embedded (Stephen Sewell, 2014) thriller involving a war correspondent; not made?
Hearts And Bones (Ben Lawrence, 2019) wr. Beatrix Christian, Ben Lawrence; Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney; South Sudan
Jirga (Benjamin Gilmour, 2018) wr. Benjamin Gilmour, prod. John Maynard, dp Benjamin Gilmour; Sam Smith, Mohammad Mosam, Kefayat Lag Humani; war drama, Afghanistan; 78 min.; Australian entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
Mr Pip (Andrew Adamson, 2012) Florence Korokoro, Eka Darville, Hugh Laurie; NZ; war in Bougainville
Tomorrow when the War Began (Stuart Beattie, 2010) fantasy
Weekend Warriors (pre-production 2013) wr. prod. Trevor Howis; war; not made?
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