Gallipoli

The film “Gallipoli” directed by Peter Weir is an entertaining view of the events leading up to and during the Gallipoli campaign, but it misrepresents history in some important areas. The film does however have an accuracy of detail that makes it seem true and it provides some similar views to those provided in “ANZAC to Amiens” written by C.E.W Bean (a former Australian Official War Historian) and to veterans interviewed in the documentary “The Fatal Shore”. These two sources show that it genuinely and correctly represents the reason for enlisting and the spirit and character of Australian troops, but misrepresents aspects in the Battle of the Nek.

The film “Gallipoli” portrays the realistic and authentic reasons for enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). Going to war was “a call to adventure” and an honorable duty to fight and die for your country and mother country- Britain. Many men had never left the country or even been on a ship so they saw...