Action! Film and War

Action! Film & War explores the role of the moving image and cinema in documenting, supporting, promoting, reporting on and recreating the Australian experience of war.

The exhibition examines film’s impact on those serving in many conflicts, and on their families and loved ones at home. Moving images have been used for many purposes in war: as a public relations tool, as a documentary record, as a personal diary, and as a key medium for providing comfort, connection and therapy for those who have served in Australia’s armed forces.

The exhibition explores these themes through the stories of the men and women who carried their cameras far from home, and aims to showcase the power and importance of film to our military and social history.

A wide range of technology, artworks, posters, paper records, photographs, oral histories – and, of course, moving pictures – is drawn upon to tell the story.