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This series highlights the work of the National Film and Sound Archive and stresses the importance of the preservation of our film and sound recording heritage. It explores our national character as expressed through our films and sound recordings.
BEHIND THE LINES profiles the previously secret Z Special Unit. At the risk of Japanese reprisal during World War II, Australian operatives volunteered for employment in the Pacific campaign. With limited support, elite operatives penetrated enemy territories via boat, submarine and aircraft. Their mission was to conduct sabotage, gather intelligence and organise local resistance of tribespeople including traditional headhunters in Borneo. With footage never screened in public before, this two-part documentary explores the anonymous training and the success and tragedies of special operations.
In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Army Secret Service and Australian servicemen made a film to show the 'exemplary conditions' under which the Prisoners of War were treated by Nippon, and to soften up the Australian public for the anticipated occupation of their country by Japanese forces. PRISONERS OF PROPAGANDA tells why the film was made, and how it came to be forgotten. The story is history, but the lessons for a public exposed to 'journalism with a message' are most relevant today. It also explores the impact that Japan had on wartime Indonesia, where 'Calling Australia' was made.
By late 1944, the worst of World War Two appears to be over. But the conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will be a long road to Tokyo for the Allies... Combining interviews and vivid archival footage, this is an eyewitness account of an often forgotten episode in history, providing a social context as well as a military overview of the titanic struggle to defeat Japan. For Australia, it is signposted with some of the bloodiest campaigns and most appalling events of the war - and the memory of 8031 POWs who would never come home.
Presented by Caroline Jones, this archival compilation of Australian documentaries from the 1960s charts the social changes that occurred as the country moved from the age of Menzies to the Whitlam era.
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