Gallipoli - Final Scene: "How Fast Are You Gonna Run?"

Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. They are sent to Turkey, where they take part in the Battle of Gallipoli. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the nature of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli and depicts the ill-fated attack at the Nek on the morning of the 7 August 1915 by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
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Yes, Churchill formulated the plans for The Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaign, but you can hardly blame him for all of its failures. You could easily blame the decisions of Horatio Kitchener (Britain's unquestionable war hero and Secretary of State for War at the time) and other British officials as well (even Hamilton) who withheld manpower and munitions. Through hindsight, it's still up in the air whether the offensive maneuver would have worked if it had been viewed as completely viable. But it's a bit simple to paint Churchill as the only architect of this disaster, I don't think MINK is doing that, but I think that seems to be the historical misconception to this day.

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