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Season 1

  • S01E01 Gallipoli

    • November 18, 2025
    • ABC (AU)

    Rachel Griffiths follows in the footsteps of director Peter Weir to understand how his 1981 blockbuster film unintentionally brought an ailing Anzac legend roaring back to life.

  • S01E02 Vietnam

    • November 25, 2025
    • ABC (AU)

    Rachel Griffiths sits down with some Aussie rock legends, and heads to the jungles of Vietnam in a bid to understand the music that united a divided nation.

  • S01E03 Afghanistan

    • December 2, 2025
    • ABC (AU)

    Rachel Griffiths meets artist Ben Quilty to explore the art that not only exposes what happens when the war is over, but helps veterans and their loved ones heal from it.

  • S01E04 Changi

    • December 9, 2025
    • ABC (AU)

    Rachel Griffiths visits the Burma-Thailand Railway that has become synonymous with WWII Prisoners of War. But a dusty piano in storage at the Australian War Memorial reveals something she could never have imagined.

  • S01E05 Australian Wars

    • December 16, 2025
    • ABC (AU)

    A country music hit, a forgotten 1880s sketchbook and a monologue that went viral expose wars fought on Australian soil, and an ongoing culture of resistance.