Remains of War
Duration: 3 x 48'
Contact SalesThis unique series with incredible footage, looks at the fascinating history of war – told through todays tangible remains, on land, in the jungle and below the ocean. Uncovering the debris of the merciless battles of World War 2 throughout the remote islands of the Pacific.
Filmed across Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Palau and Truk, the series provides a unique history of yesterday’s war using new colourised stills, and video archive shot in the heat of the original battles which will give relevance to the rusting remains.
Artillery pieces still aim where they last fired over 80 years ago, and abandoned tanks lie rusting in the jungle. Subterranean Japanese hospitals and tunnel complexes, vehicles and weapons all make up this military scrapyard, and the full story behind the recently discovered remains of Admiral Yamamoto’s plane, is finally revealed….
Under the ocean lie all types of aircraft, from large bombers to small fighter planes; often intact and with tragic tales to tell. More obscure and intriguing remains, such as a line of one-man Japanese tanks sitting perfectly upright on the sea floor, submarines, barges in caves… Shipwrecks, still containing their cargoes, are partly beached where invasion forces landed supplies, or lie deep below the waves where they were sunk by air attack or in sea battle.
Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War, this series follows the original path of the American naval advance northwards towards Japan. From battle-ravaged Guadalcanal to former Japanese stronghold of Truk, the jungles and islands of Papua New Guinea and the savage fight for the tiny island of Peleliu, we reveal some of the fascinating and forgotten tales of the conflict, and the people involved.
