soldiers

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Carmen

2002
Presents West Australian Ballet's production of Georges Bizet's story of obsessive love in which an army corporal is driven to mutiny and madness by the temperamental Gypsy smuggler Carmen.

The Red badge of courage

and selected short fiction
2003
Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.

The man without a country

2000
A parable of patriotism, written at the height of the Civil War, which tells the story of Philip Nolan, a young officer who, while on trial for misconduct, expresses a wish never to hear of the United States again, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life on board a ship, barred from any news of home.

Rome

2006
Shot on location in Rome and around Italy, this epic series portrays a vibrant and gritty Rome, as well as the historical events surrounding the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.

The four feathers

2003
A soldier redeems four white feathers sent to him for cowardice by his family and friends when his former regiment is attacked by Sudanese rebels.

The Military 100

1996

Tusk and stone

1996
After a criminal gang attacks his caravan and he loses his identity as a Brahmin, Arjun resigns himself to his new life as a soldier, becomes an elephant driver, and searches for his kidnapped sister.

True stories of the old west

1993
Examines the experiences of the cowboys, Native Americans, settlers, and soldiers and their contrasting opinions of the frontier lifestyle.

On the altar of freedom

a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front
1991
Contains a series of letters written by a black soldier to a Massachusetts newspaper during the Civil War.

A sweet-sounding place

a Civil War story of the Black 54th Regiment
2007
Rescued as an infant from the arms of his dying mother, a runaway slave, Moses is taken to Boston and raised with the family of a baker, then joins his uncle in a newly-formed, all-black regiment hoping to serve his country and find out about his mother.

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