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1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 min. 57 sec.) ; 331475582 bytes |
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*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the followoing program contains images and voices of people who have died*The final episode of award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters' investigation of the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and the events that laid the foundation for Australia in the 21st century.It's 1933 and the idea of fun and entertainment is replacing the effects of the grim intruder, the Great Depression. People are going to the movies, dancing to swing at the Trocadero and cheering the Aussies against England in the test cricket series known as 'bodyline'. But in distant Europe, storm clouds are gathering. As the bodyline test plays out in Adelaide, Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. In North Africa the Italians under Mussolini are invading Abyssinia and Japan is invading the Chinese province of Manchuria.All the portents are gathering for another world war, but for Australians still reeling from WWI the idea of another conflict is beyond a nightmare. Everyone, from families to politicians and even sections of the military, believe that no price should be too high to avoid another war. But as the decade unfolds, the aggression of the European dictators and the imperial ambitions of the Japanese push the world to the inevitable crisis.In Australia we come to believe that our future survival depends on our place as a Pacific nation independent of the British Empire, and the groundwork of modern Australia is laid in the conflict of WWII.PRODUCTION DETAILS:3 x 60 minutes. A Screen Australia and Beyond Screen production in association with Screen NSW and the ABC. Written and presented by Chris Masters. Executive Producer and Producer Mark Hamlyn. Directed by Andrew Saw and Stuart Goodman |
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Broadcast 2013-07-07 at 21:25:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Curtin, John, 1885-1945.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Australia. Royal Australian Navy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Genealogy.
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World War (1914-1918)
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Goodman, Stuart, director
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Saw, Andrew, director
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Masters, Chris, host
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