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Writers:
John Clarke (written by)
John Dixon (writer)
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Release Date:
27 October 1985 (Australia) more
Genre:
Drama | History | War more
Plot:
Following the lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the Australia and New Zealand Army... more
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Awards:
2 wins more
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Desciption more (23 total)

Cast

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Andrew Clarke ... Cpl. Martin Barrington

Paul Hogan ... Pvt. Pat Cleary
Megan Williams ... Nurse Kate Baker
Mark Hembrow ... Pvt. Dick Baker
Jon Blake ... Pvt. Flanagan
Christopher Cummins ... Pvt. Roly Collins

Tony Bonner ... Lt. Harold Armstrong

Shane Briant ... Sgt. Wilhelm 'Kaiser' Schmidt
Alec Wilson ... Sgt. Alec 'Pudden' Parsons
Patrick Ward ... Sgt. Tom McArthur
Jonathan Sweet ... C.S.M. Bill Harris
Peter Finlay ... L.C.P.T. Bluey
Jim Holt ... Pvt. 'Dingo Gordon
David Bradshaw ... Keith Murdoch
Edmund Pegge ... Captain Young
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Anzacs: The War Down Under
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Runtime:
100 min (5 episodes) | USA:165 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
Burrowes-Dixon Company more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Pvt. Roly Collins: What's going on, Pat?
Pvt. Pat Cleary: [sarcastically] It's the great war - it's in all the papers.
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Desciption, 17 March 2009
10/10
Author: Douglas Gordon from United States

Anzacs: The War Down Under is a two-part Australian TV movie dramatizing the activities of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). This all-volunteer outfit fought shoulder to shoulder with enlisted men during the First World War. The film concentrates on three Anzacs: An aristocrat (Andrew Clarke), his best friend (Mark Hembrow) and his friend's sister (Megan Williams). Part One details the training of the volunteers, and their first taste of true combat. Part Two details the further activities of the all-volunteer Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACS). During the first few months of World War I, aristocratic Anzac Andrew Clarke is wounded, and is urged to go home to convalesce by Megan Williams, the sister of his best friend (Mark Hembrow). Meanwhile, heavy fighting in France has thinned the ranks and battered the morale of the other Anzacs. 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 Anzacs, two years after its initial 1985 Australian run.

This is one of the best TV Mini-Series ever to be produced. Not to be confused with the 1995 title by the same name.

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