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Box office. $3,440,939. Beneath Hill 60 is a 2010 Australian war film directed by Jeremy Sims (credited as Jeremy Hartley Sims) and written by David Roach. Based on the 2011 book Beneath Hill 60: The Extraordinary True Story of the Secret War Being Waged Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front by Will Davies.
Jan 15, 2015 · In August 1915, 175th Tunnelling Company RE began deep-mining beneath Hill 60. The 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company completed the task, building two deep chambers. One under Hill 60 was filled with 53,300 pounds of Ammonal explosives; a second branch, under what was known as ‘the Caterpillar’, was filled with 70,000 pounds of explosives.
Beneath Hill 60. R 2010 1h 57m History Drama War Action CTA List. 86% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings. During World War I a mining engineer (Brendan Cowell) and his team dig ...
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Nov 15, 2017 · Hill 60 had been captured by the Germans during the First Battle of Ypres in 1914. The British attacked a year later, unsuccessfully, and the Hill remained in German hands until the Battle of Messines in 1917. The miners studied soundwaves through the earth and worked in quicksand, chalk and clay. Conditions were cold, cramped and often ...
Beneath Hill 60 follows the true story of the First Australian Tunnelling Company on the western front in the year leading up to the first day of the Battle of Messines, 7th June 1917. The men mine below the Messines Ridge, and notably Hill 60 to the northern end, in an effort to break through the Germans' impenetrable hold on the high ground.
Beneath Hill 60: Directed by Jeremy Sims. With Brendan Cowell, Alan Dukes, Alex T. Grant, Harrison Gilbertson. In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.
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Jun 28, 2011 · Jeremy Sims. Director. David Roach. Writer. Full Cast & Crew. The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science.
