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When The War Is Over

Season 1

2025 · 5 episodes

  1. 1. Gallipoli

    2025-11-18 · 30m

    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.

  2. 2. Vietnam

    2025-11-25 · 29m

    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.

  3. 3. Afghanistan

    2025-12-02 · 29m

    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.

  4. 4. Changi

    2025-12-09 · 28m

    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.

  5. 5. The Australian Wars

    2025-12-16 · 28m

    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.

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