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Title Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War: Acts Of War - Ep 1 Of 3 / Director: Pitt, Victoria Midwinter
Published Australia : ABC, 2015
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Summary *Adult Themes, Coarse Language, Violence**The following program contains war footage including victims of war*Never before have Australia's fighting women and men talked so candidly to the nation about war so soon after the shooting stopped. Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War draws on the raw experiences of our longest war - from private soldiers to Prime Ministers. In their own words and through their own extraordinary helmet-cam battle footage (much of it never seen before) Australian ground war warriors lay bare their hearts in a searing, profound 3 x 1 hour epic - not just how they fought, but why and to what end.The contributors to the series are all members of the Australian Defence Force who served in the 12 year war, the politicians who sent them to fight or Afghans with sharp insights into Australians' contribution to the war.Their accounts are complemented by Dan Wyllie's spare, down-to-earth narration and elegantly cut archival footage. Afghanistan would become Australia's first self-shot war and from the ADF archives of professionally and personally gathered footage come images that are poignant, dramatic and fresh. The series takes viewers inside the experiences of Australian soldiers in action, on patrol and at base.The series puts Australia's war in Afghanistan in the context of a global war on terror. The events of 9/11, Bali, Madrid, London and Iraq - plus candid reflections of former Prime Ministers John Howard and Julia Gillard - sit up against the experiences of Australian soldiers who constantly examine the reasons why they fight. Afghan commentators like Senator Hila Achekzai and former Warlord Pacha Khan Zadran reveal the complexities of that country, the moral as well as military maze in which our soldiers fought.As much as a war story, Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War is a portrait of a generation. What Australia's fighting men and women did on our behalf is chilling, fascinating and often inspiring. The way they did it - the search for solid moral foundations from which to fight this confusing war - is perhaps their most lasting legacy.Episode 1 runs from the war's trigger, the attacks on the USA of September 11 2001, through the first Special Forces clashes to the war's biggest battle, Operation Anaconda. That temporary victory, ousting of the Taliban and withdrawal of Australian troops is followed by their return in August 2005 as part of a coalition to fight a rising insurgency - a very different war begins.#AfghanistanABCPRODUCTION DETAILS:3x60 mins. Essential Media and Entertainment. Writer/Director Victoria Midwinter Pitt. Executive Producer Alan Erson. ABC Commissioning Editor Matt Scully
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2016-02-23 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: M
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management.
Military assistance, Australian.
Soldiers -- Psychology.
Terrorism -- Prevention.
Afghanistan.
Form Streaming video
Author Pitt, Victoria Midwinter, director
Wyllie, Dan, cast