1916. Two massive armies facing each other along the Western Front have fought themselves to a standstill. The count down to the Battle of Messines Ridge has begun. The allies audacious plan to break the deadlock depends on a small company of Australian miners led by Captain Oliver Woodward.
These ordinary men from mining towns across Australia were given just two weeks military training before being thrust into the war. Poorly equipped, with scant regard for military etiquette, the miners task is to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel system snaking beneath the Messines Ridge. The tunnels hide a deadly secret; a series of massive mines. If the plan succeeds it will produce the biggest explosion the world has ever known and could change the course of the war.
But no-one seems to know when the order will be given to blow the mines. With constant inundation of mud and water and endless vibrations from heavy artillery, the tunnels are in imminent danger of collapse. Disaster looms as the Germans discover the Australians underground activity. A deadly cat-and-mouse game is played out thirty metres below the fields of Flanders and, as zero hour approaches, the whole allied strategy could be in jeopardy...
Based on an extraordinary true story. Jeremy Sims directs and Brendan Cowell stars.
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idiot movie
vesicapisces 3 weeks ago
Best movie ever.
They made one mistake, Tiffin died :''( made me cry..
Iola14Coppard 4 months ago
1.51 Harry Potter is dying :,(
stoker303 5 months ago
@jonlscott Ur acting like the brits couldnt do anything right, ur wrong and the reason they sent "you guys" in is because they were busy doing something more importent.
viperr3997 6 months ago
heh In WW1 my country fought brits
Leon1700 9 months ago
@jahedhasan1 die
BayouBluesMan 10 months ago
@jonlscott 20 000 to 30 000 aussie troops died at the battle of somme under the command of a british CO
Eshayzbra96 10 months ago
@Eshayzbra96 the british abused u aussies in ww1
i feel ur pain they did the same to us canadians, whenever they couldnt accomplish something they sent in the canadians or the aussies
this is the aussie story, the canadian story is vimmy ridge
jonlscott 10 months ago
Where can I get this movie?
rh13f75 11 months ago
great movie for all ages... I saw it with my mom on moovi.co.cc and eaven her liked it and she's usualy really demanding when it comes to movies
Sombahadur83 1 year ago