Prime Presents - War News

Imagine reporting on World War One from the front-lines. War News tells the story of New Zealand's role in the conflict by bringing modern technology to the battlefields

Tonight's second War News bulletin delves into the case of a Kiwi soldier refusing to fight; is it cowardice or shellshock?

Knee-deep in a sea of mud awaiting “zero hour”, reporter Jack Crawford joins Kiwi troops on the Passchendaele front line. This War News bulletin also explores the secrets of the Arras Tunnels.

In this week’s episode of War News, correspondent Joe Stevens (Paul Yates) reports on a dark and relatively unknown chapter in New Zealand’s military history, one that has left a stain on the Anzac name: the slaughter by Anzac troops of civilians in the Arab village of Surafend.

The stunning and courageous liberation by New Zealand troops of a small French town at the end of WWI is at the heart of the final episode of War News. Correspondents Jack Crawford (Jason Whyte) and Paul Jameson (Richard Dey) are with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade as it attempts to liberate the German-held town of Le Quesnoy using a single ladder.