Battle of Long Tan Doco Preview - Narrated by Sam Worthington - Vietnam War

Watch the full documentary here - http://www.battleoflongtan.com To whet your appetite here are the opening minutes of our critically acclaimed documentary The Battle of Long Tan. 105 Australian and 3 New Zealand soldiers fought and defeated more than 2,500 Viet Cong and NVA soldiers in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan on 18 August 1966. 18 Australians died and 24 were wounded and more than 500 enemy were killed with more than 1,000 enemy wounded.

More details of the upcoming movie and more videos at - http://www.reddunefilms.com/Press_index.htm

Producers: Martin Walsh and Damien Lay
Narrator: Sam Worthington
Director: Damien Lay
DOP: Steve Williams
Film Editor: Joe Morris
Composer: Mark Gluhak
Colourist: Nick Barton
Writer: Keith Thompson, Damien Lay & Martin Walsh
Prod Manager: Sam Bateman
Prod Company: Red Dune Films and Animax Films

The Battle of Long Tan Awards:
2007 Logie Award: Nomination - Documentary of the year.
2007 ASTRA Awards: Most Outstanding Documentary of the Year.
2006 ACS Awards: Cinematography in a Documentary.

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[TimeLifeAU]

Noticed alot of people asking where this is sold - Time Life distribute this dvd - sold in all leading DVD stores. Just released in April 2010.

[OZ2CDO]

@TimeLifeAU Just a shame that TimeLife is breaching my moral rights as the creator and joint producer of my documentary by not providing my producer credit on the actual film credits and packaging. Not to mention doing a deal with Animax for the DVD when I own the underlying rights (Chain of Title) and 50% of the production.

[jonhoiles]

That is just about the poorest formation discipline I have ever seen....

how about you spread out a little so that you don't all die at once?

[OZ2CDO]

@jonhoiles It is called television! You cannot capture war story on a small screen without using some creative license. I produced the doco & I served in 2 Commando. I was advising the actors to follow real tactics as best as we could. You will see the same thing in all war movies & TV, even The Pacific on Ch7 right now. If we followed true infantry tactics you would only ever see between 1-3 people on the screen! lol

[1040steman]

My younger brother was involved in this battle and was wounded by shrapnel in the back, but lost five of his mates from friendly support artillery. They faced seemingly overwhelming odds to hold back the VC who were straffing 12 inches above ground level. A sad but superhuman effort by all those involved that lived and died. Go Aussies

[OZ2CDO]

No Australians were killed by friendly fire during this battle.

[1243568790]

You're 34? and if your bro is a minimum of 33 that would make him... -9 when the battle occured; my bullshit sense is off the scale!

[SpiritOfLongTan]

The main point to remember is that Aussies and Vietnamese (north or south) are now friends. That's proof that war sucks, because sooner or later after we've shot the buggery out of each other we have to sit down and negotiate. Later on, we're friends again. It would be nice if we could circumvent the fighting part and just do the negotiating.

There's always bravery on both sides in war and nobody should disrespect anyone who dies in battle for a truly righteous cause.

[arrowmint12]

@OZ2CDO... your correct ,this1040 bloke is bull ....

[darbz2k]

Good stuff! Where can I see this or buy it?

[harrisharrod]

I was one of the Film soldier actors in that docco, and nobody has mentioned that apart from training from Ian Sparke we were shown some helpfull tips by Bob Buick who was there! I assure you he did not miss mutch. small mistake happen and there are always the critics who pick on every point, they feel is not correct, however even the famous Dale Dye made the odd mistake. I think the problem here are there are too many "One Book Historians"

Cheers.

[Ironwulf2000]

Any chance of a blu-ray version?

[ljharry75]

@gunnermac70 yeah and D coy didn't do anything except lose lives. How dare you use this as a platform for your inbred bigotry.

[krissyeh]

@OZ2CDO. I see you point but also what about tail end charlie walking backwards.

He should have stopped scanned the area to the rear then moved forward again.

[ac130ugunship]

Just remember the 3 kiwis who stood with the aussies calling in atrillary fire, over 4000 rounds landing some of them within 30 metres of aussie front line

Head shots with 21 105's

[StrikerVX2006]

@OZ2CDO It's also a pity that their stolen version isn't the uncut original release from when this excellent documentary was first shown in 2006, but the "trimmed down" version that's been played once a year on History Channel ever since. Please let the public know when you've sorted out the mess and proper, authentic and legal release is made. This is still to date the best Vietnam documentary I've seen.

[kenunderhull]

@OZ2CDO if that is true that is crap. This was one of the best docos i have ever seen (on foxtel), the people who created it should benefit.

[petethebastard]

@323nut We don't "slag you" ... we have a friendly dig! You bite back! Just like we hate being called the "West Island"

It's ALL good! Go ANZAC!