The Anzac soldier in the Great War has been characterised in films and television from 1919 through to the present day. Mark Connelly will discuss films such as "Tell England" (1931), Peter Weir’s iconic "Gallipoli" (1981) starring Mel Gibson, and the 1985 television series "Anzacs", before concluding with a brief look at the most recent reinvention, "Anzac Girls" (2015).
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British Military History at the School of History at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History.