Kokoda: The Spirit Lives (2017)

A feature-length documentary taking viewers on a fascinating journey of discovery, walking in the footsteps of those, who in 1942, against all odds, withstood Japan's previously unstoppable Pacific invasion force to preserve Australia's freedom. A modern telling of the Kokoda story, its significance in the Pacific War and an exploration of the enduring spirit which sustained the Kokoda Diggers and which still inspires Australians today. 75 years ago next year, for the first time in Australia's European history, our liberty was under threat. A rampant Japanese Army had swarmed over the Pacific and landed in Papua New Guinea, then Australian territory. The invaders were at our doorstep and the only troops standing between them and the Australian mainland were a group of young, poorly-trained, under-equipped Militia units, who had never fired a shot in anger. The crucial battles to defend Australia were fought from July 1942 to January 1943, along a jungle path over PNG's precipitous Owen Stanley Range, the infamous Kokoda Track.