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ANZAC Girls tells of extraordinary young women who witness the brutality of war and rise to meet the challenge. Through shocking hardship they experience exceptional friendship, love, success and heartbreak. In World War One over three and a half thousand young Australian and New Zealand women served as nurses with the two fledgling nations’ army services. Nearly three hundred were decorated for courage beyond the call of duty. Remarkable women, doing extraordinary work in terrible times.

2014 · 58m

Starring Anna McGahan, Caroline Craig, Georgia Flood

EPISODE 1

Adventure

The ANZAC girls arrive in Egypt just after the outbreak of World War One, and soon realise that war is not quite the splendid adventure they initially thought.
EPISODE 2

Duty

Overcoming intense hardship and trauma on the Greek Island of Lemnos, Olive and Grace care for the injured troops from the botched August Offensive. In Egypt, Elsie has to fight to stay at the British Hospital in Alexandria in order to save the life of her seriously wounded husband Syd.
EPISODE 3

Endurance

In Egypt, Alice and Elsie are confronted by the heart-wrenching reality of love during wartime, which reaches a breaking point for Elsie when she is forced to choose between her husband, Syd and her role abroad in the AANS. Whilst enduring the horrific conditions on Lemnos, Olive faces her greatest test of faith and resolve.
EPISODE 4

Love

After being seconded to a British hospital in France, the girls come face-to-face with the snobbery of the British nursing staff, inciting them to reflect on their own national identity. Meanwhile, Alice (Georgia Flood) is forced to face the emotional brutality of war as Harry (Dustin Clare) is believed to have been killed at Fromelles.
EPISODE 5

Mateship

Alice (Georgia Flood) struggles to accept that Harry may have been killed; Hilda (Antonia Prebble) discovers an aptitude for anaesthetics; Olive (Anna McGahan) is proposed to by Pat; and Elsie (Laura Brent) returns to the war as part of the Croix Rouge.
EPISODE 6

Courage

Alice (Georgia Flood), Hilda (Antonia Prebble) and Elsie (Laura Brent) all find themselves mere kilometres from the front, the possibility of death edging ever closer, while the war seems like it will never end.

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Caroline Craig

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Todd Lasance

Lt. Sydney "Syd" Cook
Anna McGahan

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Laura Brent

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Charles Mayer

Major Xavier Leopold
Dustin Clare

Lt. Harry Moffitt
Antonia Prebble

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Georgia Flood

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Greg Haddrick

Producer
Des Monaghan

Producer
David Ogilvy

Producer

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ANZAC Girls tells of extraordinary young women who witness the brutality of war and rise to meet the challenge. Through shocking hardship they experience exceptional friendship, love, success and heartbreak. In World War One over three and a half thousand young Australian and New Zealand women served as nurses with the two fledgling nations’ army services. Nearly three hundred were decorated for courage beyond the call of duty. Remarkable women, doing extraordinary work in terrible times.

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