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The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.

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This Movietone News clip shows Australian troops embarking for Vietnam in 1965.

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This is a segment from the Parliamentary debate in 1965 concerning Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), pretending to shoot a gun, exchanges a few battle cries with his absent father, and throws a rock at a man on a bicycle, who crashes.

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The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Gallipoli (1981).

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Archy (Mark Lee) and Frank (Mel Gibson), newly arrived on Gallipoli, get a rude education on life and death in the trenches.

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Combat cameraman Neil Davis discusses one of the most memorable images of the Vietnam War, when the national police chief shot dead a Vietnamese suspect.

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Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), in anticipation of the coming train, places a steel bolt on the train track and waits for the results.

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Alister Grierson, director of the 2006 feature film Kokoda, talks about historical accuracy and representing war experience on film.

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Harry (Graham Kennedy) sets Bung (John Hargreaves) straight about the War: the 'commos’ will win and no-one at home in Australia will thank them for going.