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Beneath Hill 60: Click Here to Book Now Beneath Hill 60 (Jeremy Sims, 2010) is an Australian feature film set underneath the trenches of World War One. This never-before-told Australian story takes place during 1916 and 1917, when Queensland miner Captain Oliver Woodward (played by Brendan Cowell) – under-trained and never having faced hostile fire before – finds himself on the Western Front, the bloodiest battlefield in history.
His new fiancée, seventeen-year-old Marjorie (Bella Heathcote), has pleaded with him not to enlist. She has only just discovered love and cannot believe that it could be taken from her. But men with Woodward’s underground skills are desperately needed so that a deadly German offensive can be countered.
The film is based on the memoirs of Captain Woodward of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, which was responsible for the mines set under ‘Hill 60’ – an elevated point that dominated that part of the killing fields of Belgium. The tunnellers’ bravery in developing these underground mines and the subsequent massive explosions broke the gridlocked trench warfare of the previous three years.
Young German coal miners Ernst Wagner (Marcus Costello) and Karl Babek (Kenneth Spiteri) have also been thrust into the war. They have been brought, along with thousands of other men and boys, from the mining villages of Bavaria.
The soldier-miners from both sides drive their narrow tunnels under ‘no-man’s-land’. Attempting to out-manoeuvre and undermine each other, they create a great labyrinth of tunnels. It’s a silent and savage war where one tiny sound can turn a man from hunter to hunted, and where skilled listeners are more sought after than fighters.
After two years of claustrophobia, bloodshed, triumph and heartbreak, it all comes down to a single moment. As infantrymen quietly fix bayonets in the darkness, Oliver Woodward crouches in a muddy bunker preparing to press a detonator that could change the course of the war …
The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), through its Education Program, offers opportunities for school students
to access and engage with Australian screen culture. It celebrates the Australian film industry by bringing screenings of contemporary and classic Australian feature films, documentaries and short films to schools throughout regional Australia. These films cater specifically for both primary school and high school students. These screenings take place during school hours at local cinemas and the films screened are programmed in consultation with the local area schools.
ATOM is in partnership with the NFSA in offering this online booking system for these free school screening sessions. Click on the blue NFSA's Schools Screening Program link at the bottom of this page to see current available screenings and to book in your area now.
If your school is not able to access any screenings on offer, you can contact the National Film & Sound Archive School Screen Coordinator to discuss organizing a screening of any Australian film in your local cinema or a free screening at your school if there is no cinema nearby.
These screenings are during school hours, and are FREE.
The screenings include such titles as:
Secondary Schools:
Australian Rules (Rated M), Beneath Clouds (Rated M), The Big Steal (Rated M), Delinquents (Rated M), Lantana (Rated MA), The Man From Snowy River (Rated PG), Hating Alison Ashley (Rated PG), Breaker Morant (Rated PG), Gallipoli (Rated PG), Strictly Ballroom (Rated PG), Rabbit-Proof Fence (Rated PG), Newsfront (Rated PG), The Tracker (Rated M), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Rated PG), The Black Balloon (Rated M), Romulus, My Father (Rated M), Ten Canoes (Rated M).
Primary Schools:
Storm Boy (Rated G), Skippy and the Intruders (Rated G), No Worries (Rated G), Hildegarde (Rated G), The Magic Pudding (Rated G), The Silver Brumby (Rated G), Barney (Rated G), Elephant Tales (Rated G), Dr Plonk (Rated G), The Silly Billies Save the Circus!! (Rated G).
The Last Station: Click Here to Book Now
A tale of two romances, one beginning, one near its end, The Last Station is a complex, funny, rich and emotional story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it. Written and directed by Michael Hoffman (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Fine Day, Soapdish, Restoration), The Last Station recounts the drama of the final year in the life of the great Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy. It is a true story, both dramatic and humorous, that covers the themes of passion, love, family, greed, intrigue, conflict and revolution.
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