25 April (2015) - English Movie Subtitles

1 00:01:27,538 --> 00:01:33,850 Subtitles by CAUDILHO® 2 00:01:43,038 --> 00:01:45,800 The sky was raining shells, 3 00:01:45,820 --> 00:01:48,310 and the ridges were on fire. 4 00:01:51,830 --> 00:01:55,650 I remember my hand was aching from working the bolts. 5 00:02:00,710 --> 00:02:05,200 Imagine what it's like when the man beside you is shot. 6 00:02:06,290 --> 00:02:09,620 He gives off this funny little cough. 7 00:02:11,410 --> 00:02:13,105 There's no need... 8 00:02:13,110 --> 00:02:15,010 to look back. 9 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:28,220 During World War One Turkey was a German ally. 10 00:02:28,230 --> 00:02:30,730 Hoping to knock Turkey out of the war 11 00:02:30,735 --> 00:02:34,470 the British launched an invasion at the Gallipoli Peninsula. 12 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:37,850 As part of the British Empire 13 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:41,250 colonial troops from Australia and New Zealand fought in this campaign. 14 00:02:41,260 --> 00:02:47,120 Gallipoli was to be a defining event in the history of these two nations. 15 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:54,000 My name is Thomas Grace, but everyone calls me Hami. 16 00:02:54,410 --> 00:02:56,650 I was made a second lieutenant. 17 00:02:56,655 --> 00:02:58,290 A Maori office in the New Zealand Army. 18 00:02:58,295 --> 00:02:59,760 Now, that was rare. 19 00:03:01,025 --> 00:03:03,695 When I signed up, I thought it would be a big adventure, 20 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:05,600 and we thought we were going to Europe. 21 00:03:05,625 --> 00:03:07,670 But we were sent to Turkey, 22 00:03:07,805 --> 00:03:09,700 a place called Gallipoli. 23 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:14,840 This is the story of six people who served at Gallipoli. 24 00:03:14,845 --> 00:03:18,350 It is based on their words as written in their diaries, 25 00:03:18,355 --> 00:03:20,350 letters and memoirs. 26 00:03:20,355 --> 00:03:26,670 The events in this film are true. 27 00:03:36,605 --> 00:03:38,620 My dearest Ethel, 28 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,800 by now you will now from the papers 29 00:03:40,805 --> 00:03:43,720 that we are on our way to fight the Turk. 30 00:03:44,665 --> 00:03:46,790 I'll be in a forward position for the landing, 31 00:03:46,795 --> 00:03:49,660 and we expect to meet heavy fire. 32 00:03:51,025 --> 00:03:53,100 If I fall, 33 00:03:53,110 --> 00:03:56,040 know, my darling, how much I love you 34 00:03:56,050 --> 00:03:59,320 and know it was for a good cause. 35 00:04:03,010 --> 00:04:06,420 I believed I was serving great men. 36 00:04:06,835 --> 00:04:10,550 I was prepared to die for King and country. 37 00:04:11,915 --> 00:04:13,970 I had a wonderful wife, 38 00:04:13,975 --> 00:04:15,690 three daughters, 39 00:04:15,695 --> 00:04:18,370 and I hoped to make my family proud. 40 00:04:20,895 --> 00:04:24,500 Monday 5th of April 1915. 41 00:04:25,795 --> 00:04:28,610 We're all feeling excited about our departure. 42 00:04:28,645 --> 00:04:30,930 We've heard weird tales of what awaits us 43 00:04:30,935 --> 00:04:32,870 when we reach Gallipoli. 44 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:36,870 Our transport is a boat called the Achaia, 45 00:04:36,885 --> 00:04:39,420 a tub of 1500 tons, 46 00:04:39,425 --> 00:04:41,670 formely a German cargo transporter... 47 00:04:45,025 --> 00:04:48,955 They gave us a map of the Gallipoli peninsula, 48 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,970 and we studied that very closely. 49 00:04:53,510 --> 00:04:57,000 The war in Europe had reached a stalemate. 50 00:04:57,885 --> 00:05:01,730 Pushing Turkey out of the war could break the deadlock. 51 00:05:01,735 --> 00:05:05,215 If we could seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula, 52 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:07,640 we'd command the Dardanelles Strait, 53 00:05:07,645 --> 00:05:09,900 and the British Navy would have a sea route 54 00:05:09,945 --> 00:05:12,790 to the Turkish capital, Constantinople. 55 00:05:24,805 --> 00:05:28,320 It was 4 a.m. as we approached the Turkish coast. 56 00:05:31,945 --> 00:05:34,710 I was beach-landing officer. 57 00:05:35,025 --> 00:05:38,990 It was my job to get the men ashore. 58 00:05:50,375 --> 00:05:53,980 The Australians landed first, and I was with them. 59 00:05:53,995 --> 00:05:56,900 Nothing went according to plan. 60 00:06:10,820 --> 00:06:15,290 The Australians charged up the steep hill in front of them. 61 00:06:17,775 --> 00:06:19,990 They gained ground up on the ridge, 62 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:22,320 but were soon pushed back. 63 00:06:32,765 --> 00:06:36,610 By midday the place was a fiery inferno. 64 00:06:42,265 --> 00:06:43,750 We were so close, 65 00:06:43,755 --> 00:06:46,440 enemy shells splintered the decks. 66 00:06:47,755 --> 00:06:50,340 I wasn't afraid. It was just... 67 00:06:50,445 --> 00:06:52,890 intense excitement. 68 00:06:56,755 --> 00:06:58,905 It was remarkable how soldier-like 69 00:06:58,910 --> 00:07:01,780 you felt being amongst it all. 70 00:07:10,515 --> 00:07:13,600 I was a corporal in the Auckland Infantry Battalion. 71 00:07:14,175 --> 00:07:16,195 I signed up pretty much straight away, 72 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,055 as soon as England declared war. 73 00:07:18,060 --> 00:07:19,540 Call it war fever. 74 00:07:24,805 --> 00:07:27,790 I was sure glad those battleships were on our side. 75 00:07:30,655 --> 00:07:34,180 You could really appreciate the beauty of bursting shrapnel. 76 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:46,170 Of course, that was before our own baptism of fire. 77 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:55,370 Transport after transport landed soldiers. 78 00:07:56,825 --> 00:07:58,290 Could see our troops 79 00:07:58,295 --> 00:08:01,060 making their way up the hill in long zigzag tracks. 80 00:08:09,565 --> 00:08:12,980 We went in to reinforce the Australians, 81 00:08:12,995 --> 00:08:16,650 but there were very few of them to reinforce. 82 00:08:18,095 --> 00:08:22,260 Shrapnel and rifle bullets were flying like hail. 83 00:08:23,455 --> 00:08:27,450 It was my first time under fire, and... 84 00:08:27,525 --> 00:08:30,050 I've g***t to admit, I was afraid. 85 00:08:35,825 --> 00:08:39,640 The Turks were giving us hell. It was war with a vengeance. 86 00:08:44,925 --> 00:08:47,680 We were too exposed to enemy fire. 87 00:08:49,805 --> 00:08:52,140 The Turks were well dug in. 88 00:08:54,385 --> 00:08:58,010 We went like blazes, under fire the whole way. 89 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,310 The men were trapped by constant fire. 90 00:09:22,580 --> 00:09:26,590 The wounded, they... They just kept on coming. 91 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,750 We were ordered to leave them and to concentrate on the landing. 92 00:09:33,495 --> 00:09:38,230 But I felt it was wrong to let the wounded suffer like that. 93 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:44,450 So I had them flown to a hospital ship. 94 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,970 The first landing party were cut to pieces by the Turks. 95 00:10:18,730 --> 00:10:22,200 We worked liked you know what, 96 00:10:22,210 --> 00:10:24,750 from the commanding officer to the firemen. 97 00:10:27,180 --> 00:10:30,280 We had to turn many of the wounded away. 98 00:10:30,850 --> 00:10:33,140 They were put on transport ships 99 00:10:33,145 --> 00:10:35,440 until another hospital ship arrived. 100 00:10:52,795 --> 00:10:55,710 I was a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli. 101 00:10:56,445 --> 00:10:58,820 I didn't take enlistment lightly. 102 00:10:59,755 --> 00:11:02,530 What counted for me was that the church backed the war, 103 00:11:02,535 --> 00:11:03,450 and... 104 00:11:03,465 --> 00:11:06,150 I wanted to do the Christian thing. 105 00:11:08,405 --> 00:11:10,850 My ambulance unit was ashore, 106 00:11:10,855 --> 00:11:11,760 but... 107 00:11:11,765 --> 00:11:14,540 a group of us had been left behind. 108 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,740 I ended up on a transport. 109 00:11:18,305 --> 00:11:20,740 I was 21 years old. 110 00:11:21,225 --> 00:11:24,500 I had a hold full of wounded to myself. 111 00:11:26,755 --> 00:11:30,060 A friend of mine from school was brought onboard. 112 00:11:30,405 --> 00:11:32,800 He had a bullet in his brain. 113 00:11:33,050 --> 00:11:35,280 I begged the doctors to operate, 114 00:11:35,285 --> 00:11:37,985 but they said there was nothing they could do. 115 00:11:42,045 --> 00:11:44,700 He died the following day. 116 00:12:11,905 --> 00:12:16,450 We left for the land hospital with 600 wounded onboard. 117 00:12:20,585 --> 00:12:24,150 I was working night duty with one other nurse. 118 00:12:24,165 --> 00:12:28,350 With the help of the orderlies, we'd do half the ship each. 119 00:12:32,705 --> 00:12:35,050 It hardly seemed real. 120 00:12:42,605 --> 00:12:45,600 I was anxious about our position. 121 00:12:46,175 --> 00:12:50,620 We were hanging by our eyebrows off a sort of eagle's nest, 122 00:12:50,625 --> 00:12:52,900 backed by our ships' guns. 123 00:12:53,705 --> 00:12:57,180 There were discussions about withdrawal. But... 124 00:12:57,185 --> 00:12:59,800 Well, we were instructed to dig in. 125 00:13:05,730 --> 00:13:09,810 There were 25,000 men in our small patch of land. 126 00:13:25,210 --> 00:13:28,130 Oh, the things were busy down on the beach. 127 00:13:28,135 --> 00:13:30,250 You can imagine what it was like. 128 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:44,550 I was appointed commandant of ANZAC Cove. 129 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:47,510 Uh, ANZAC is an acronym for 130 00:13:47,515 --> 00:13:49,900 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. 131 00:13:49,915 --> 00:13:52,700 So the ANZAC moniker stuck, 132 00:13:52,825 --> 00:13:55,885 a little like we did to our tiny piece of land. 133 00:14:02,115 --> 00:14:05,970 It was over a week before I was finally dumped on shore. 134 00:14:07,905 --> 00:14:11,330 My unit was stationed under a steep cliff. 135 00:14:16,905 --> 00:14:19,660 The boys were pretty pleased to see me. 136 00:14:19,955 --> 00:14:21,800 There were... 137 00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:25,350 well, there were gaps to fill. 138...