Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Posted by Admin on Sunday, October 17, 2010
Under: Adventure
The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward. It's 1916 and Woodward
must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage
of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines. Woodward and his
secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking,
labyrinthine tunnel system packed with enough high explosives to change
the course of the War.After recently returning from a very moving tour of some of the
battlefields of the western front (including Hill 60 itself), I was
extremely glad to hear of a film depicting some of the heroics which
took place there. Given the enormity of what happened in those years,
the events which took place there are undeniably underrecognised. Make
no mistake, World War One in film has none of the glory associated with
it as so often its sequel. It was a truly awful war, for both sides.
Unique in every way, difficult to explain to others, and for all the
bloodshed, is difficult to comprehend in modern times. Some of the
stories from that period are crying out to be told. This is one of
them.
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