Pozieres

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Between July and August 1916, the small village of Pozieres in northern France became the centre of one of the bloodiest battles of World War One. By the end of August the village had been destroyed. The battles to reclaim the territory for the French nation were to become legendary.

In 1916, during the Great War, Pozieres became the centre of one of the bloodiest battles and the key to the success of the Battle for the Somme. The village was stormed and captured by Australians. In less than seven weeks they suffered 23,000 casualties for this tiny patch of earth.

Pozieres was like a stone thrown violently into a pool that was the consciousness of a nation. The ripples spread outwards to the homes and hearts of those who endured, suffered and lost. Pozieres is a twentieth-century tragedy.

This film takes the viewer back in time, finding young men in the fields and trenches of France, railway carriages in Egypt and the Australian bush. We meet their families in the parlours of small cottages and rowdy public meetings in Australia.

Everyone is touched in some way by this tiny village, and eighty-four years later we go back to Pozieres to find out if it was all worth anything.