Deadline Gallipoli
2016
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Season 1 episodes (4)
1 Tug of War
12/19/16
Season-only
Cairo, 1915. Soldiers in the Australian army set fire to a brothel in the red light district in retribution for venereal diseases and overpricing. Charles Bean, Australian war correspondent, is appalled by the brash attitude of the volunteer soldiers but he has more pressing concerns.
2 Truth and Lies
12/19/16
Season-only
Trench warfare is brutal. The numbers of wounded and dead soldiers continue to mount. The invasion has failed - the Turks have steadfastly defended their lines. General Birdwood's calls for an immediate retreat have been left unanswered.
3 Is It Death
12/19/16
Season-only
The build-up to the August offensive begins. Bean has been wounded in the leg, yet this doesn't stop him from preparing for the oncoming attack. He questions Mehmet about the offensive, and realises this battle is going to be hell on both sides. Bean learns the Turkish word for stop: "Dur." Both men fear the imminent destruction.
4 The Letter
12/19/16
Season-only
Murdoch seeks refuge in the Australian embassy. Bartlett's letter has been impounded, but he writes his own version and delivers it to the Australian Prime Minister who forwards it to the British High Command. The effect is immediate.
About this show
Deadline Gallipoli is the powerful story of four war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch, whose job it was to report on the events that unfolded on the shores of Gallipoli in 1915. These were the first truly embedded war correspondents whose defiance ignited a change in the campaign’s course and whose commitment to the stories of the men turned the war from a strategic failure into a triumph of the human spirit.
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