War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's

founding right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased

its size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Welcome to another special episode of Key Battles of World War I.

I'm James Early, your host as always, and I'm joined by my friend and movie expert, at least I think so, Sean McIver.

This is another, this episode is another in a projected mini, not projected, I guess we're actually doing it, aren't we, right?

A mini series of episodes in which Sean and I are going to discuss several of the best movies about World War I.

In today's episode, we're going to discuss the 2010 Australian film Beneath Hill 60.

This is a fascinating movie about Australian tunlers who are trying to tunnel under the German lines on the Western Front and blow them to bits. So we'll see how that works out.

Sean McIrae is with me again.

Of course, he's the co-host of the excellent podcast, come and take it.

And as I mentioned, a major movie buff.

And I'm excited to have him with me.

How you doing, Sean?

Doing well.

All right.

Well, this is the first one we've done so far that Sean had never seen before. Right, Sean? That's right.

Prior to me mentioning this. This movie really is a hidden gem. I had myself never heard of it until I started researching for the World War I main series, the battle episodes. And I went into Amazon Prime and I just thought,

I wonder what they have on World War I. So I googled, I mean, not Googled, but I searched

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