Field Punishment No.1
The war heroes we never heard about
2014 · 1h 30m · N/A Drama, War
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Field Punishment No.1
Overview
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
Director and cast
- Fraser Brown as Archibald Baxter
- Michael Whalley as William Little
- Byron Coll as Mark Briggs
- Damien Avery as Sandy Baxter
- Victoria Abbott as Sophie
- Colin Moy as Sergeant Bolton
- Andrew Robertt as Lieutenant-Colonel CMO
- Joseph Rye as Lieutenant Nessam
- Jason Hodzelmans as John Baxter
- Tim Carlsen as James
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