Product Overview
Please note: This study guide contains two versions – a full-colour guide and a text-only version for printing and referencing.
Acclaimed actress Rachel Griffiths explores the game-changing songs, blockbuster films, best-selling books, masterpiece paintings and myriad artworks that help tell Australia’s war stories. As Rachel says: ‘When it comes to understanding war, art is our secret weapon.’
Filmed across Türkiye, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia, this searing series examines the pop culture and art that has helped Australians make sense of our five major wars – WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Australian Wars fought here on home soil.
Curriculum Links:
When the War is Over is suitable for Year 10 students in the following learning areas:
- The Arts
- History
- English
It also has relevance to the following Cross-curriculum priorities:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
- Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
As well as the General capabilities:
- Personal and Social Capability
- Ethical Understanding
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Literacy
Key themes:
- Art and music
- War
- Pop culture
- Trauma
- Battlefields
- Australian identity
- History
- Indigenous resistance
