Of all the patriotic songs of WW1, '...
Boys of the
Dardanelles
They fa...
Comes a message o’er the ocean
A ...
This commercial sound recording include...
Though your heart is aching, mother dear ...
The Lynch Family, Harry Lynch and his four&n...
Throughout the war Federal Government House,...
Australia’s federal capital was purpose...
'The War Zoo' is the original title of ...
Scenes of surf, sun and swimming at Coo...
British journalist Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, o...
Australian sketch artist and caricaturist Ha...
This brief clip from around 1914 is one ...
Miss Australasia is the first segme...
By 1914 Australian horsemen had proved ...
In the first months after Australia ent...
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, ...
Various wartime fundraising and recruit...
This rare example of amateur or home movie f...
Clowns boxing and performing ‘pratfalls...
While a bitter war raged on the other s...
A German soldier’s horse is turned into Germ...
Troops (seen from dock) wave from ship prior...
This 1915 Australian Government recruit...
The German battle cruiser Emden ope...
Prior to radio, songs were largely heard per...
‘The Amazing Micrometer’, a machine mea...
When Australia entered the First World ...
“Since Captain Cook’s arrival, no more memor...
Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour had t...
'Sons of Australia' was composed by Fel...
From a sheepdog trial to a costume parade in...
The sombre 1915 funeral procession of M...
Harry Julius’s clever animated comment ...
Canadian-American silent film star Mary Pick...
The Great War did not succeed in killin...
In Neptune’s Daughter, an “eig...
W.S. Percy was a favourite Australian c...
This two-minute clip is taken from the ...
The arrival of a shipment of US films i...
Was Charlie Chaplin at Sydney’s 1916 R...
In Seven Keys to Baldpate, a silent...
In this groundbreaking early cinema ad,...
Rain poured and cold winds blustered, b...
In this animated film, a British soldier dod...
The Gallipoli campaign inspired a numbe...
The dismal lyrics of ‘Only One of the T...
The lyrics of the song ‘They Were There...
The daybill, or poster, for the fi...
Well-known actors, elaborate sets and a...
The lost 1916 Australian silent movie The Pi...
Returned servicemen engage in handicrafts, m...
After surviving the bloody battles on the We...
Veterans returning in wheelchairs and with m...
A government film gives hope of rehabilitati...
The factory weaving Anzac Tweed was on the b...
“We are dying of exhaustion for want of a sp...
Troops needed to practice warfare before exp...
A young Prince of Wales decorates Australian...
Thousands of Melburnians turn out in the pou...
During their war service, Australian troops ...
With their white, starched uniforms and red ...
An Anzac Day cinema advertisement encouragin...
Troops from France’s Pacific colonies, on th...
The First World War was truly a global war. ...
The horses that were sent to the Wester...
This rousing music hall song by Australian-b...
The subject of a child innocently shaming th...
A sentimental song composed as a tribut...
"I’ll linger longer in Yarrawonga"
An uplifting music hall song, intended to pr...
This song, in which a series of soldiers&nbs...
This newsreel shows the then prosperous and ...
This footage shows Australian troops boardin...
Australian and New Zealand troops arrived in...
Football clubs displayed their patriotism by...
In the early stages of the war sport was see...
Over 3,000 Australian nurses volunteered dur...
More than 150 sick and wounded men return to...
A report issued in March 1916 observed that&...
After the outbreak of war there was a g...
“Produced with the wholehearted co-operation...
Conscription was introduced by law in New Z...
This pro-conscription cartoon appeared short...
The camera operator is unusually close ...
For many Anzac soldiers, their outward voyag...
This film shows the unveiling of a monument ...
Prime minister William (Billy) Hughes, Sir G...
Belgian Flag Days, along with French Flag Da...
The First World War led to a major influx of...
Written and composed by English music hall w...
Only a Sinner was written...
Written by Scottish-born composer Peter...
This light-hearted recruitment tune composed...
For the war effort to be successful, it...
The songs sung by music hall artists du...
When We March Through Berlin Town&n...
With the Gallipoli campaign at deadlock...
This hand-coloured glass slide shows Br...
This scene of soldiers unloading barges at&n...
This image (B&W glass slide) was probab...
Two Australian soldiers riding in a ric...
This hand-coloured glass slide shows me...
Surgeon-General Charles S. Ryan is shown in ...
The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell ...
The Matyrdom of Nurse Cavell is a 1...
Nurse Cavell is a 1916 Australian f...
Nurse Cavell is a 1916 Australian f...
In addition to the loss of life, wars cost m...
Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France...
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and...
John Jellicoe was appointed commander of th...
The Australian Government used innovative me...
At the end of the First World War, Australia...
With the First World War now over, newsreels...
The Paris Peace Conference, also known as th...
Returned Australian soldiers in convalescenc...
Towards the end of the war the Australian Re...
Nurses from the Australian Red Cross serve t...
A Peace Day Parade at Woonona in New South W...
‘Patriotism must not die because the war is ...