In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
Casts Fraser Brown, Michael Whalley, Byron Coll, Damien Avery, Victoria Abbott, Colin Moy, Andrew Robertt, Joseph Rye, Jason Hodzelmans, Tim Carlsen
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Wrath of the Seas
Apron Strings
Under the Mountain
For the Honour of Australia
Wooden Crosses
Forgotten Men
Carry Me Back
Bluebeard
Resolve
Fort Saganne
Flyboys
The World's Fastest Indian
Mother at War
The Green Room
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Muurmanin pakolaiset
Catching the Black Widow
The Dark Horse
Appointment in Bray
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
IMDB 8.1 | Jan , 1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.Wrath of the Seas
IMDB 4 | Dec , 1926
The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.Apron Strings
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2008
Celebrity Chef Anita hasn't seen her family for twenty years. That is until her son Michael decides to do some soul searching and track down his aunt.Under the Mountain
IMDB 4.6 | Dec , 2009
Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.For the Honour of Australia
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1916
For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus the documentary How We Fought the Emden.Wooden Crosses
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1932
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.Forgotten Men
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1933
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the war as illustrated by an assemblage of battlefield and other documentary footage. This film is not the same as, but seems likely to have either inspired or been inspired by, Norman Lee's British production of the same title (q.v.), apparently released the following year.Carry Me Back
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1982
Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.Bluebeard
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1963
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.Resolve
IMDB 8 | Jul , 2017
Based on the true story of Chris Crean, who took a stand against gang violence in his community only to become a target himself.Fort Saganne
IMDB 6 | May , 1984
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.Flyboys
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2006
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.The World's Fastest Indian
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2005
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.Mother at War
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2020
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.The Green Room
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 1978
A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, he transforms a chapel into a new shrine to preserve her memory.The Legend of Bagger Vance
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2000
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.Muurmanin pakolaiset
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1927
In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns out to be a German lieutenant Braun. Braun and his six comrades have managed to escape the prisoner of war at the Muurmann railway station, but the lieutenant has had to get rid of the lost group. While Braun is recovering, under the good care of Saima, Niva's neighbor and henchman of the gendarmes, the greedy policeman Simpura, gets a tip about the refugees camped in the desert.Catching the Black Widow
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 2017
The courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.The Dark Horse
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2014
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.Appointment in Bray
IMDB 4.3 | Dec , 1971
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.