Every digital resource on Screen Australia’s Digital Learning site is tagged with descriptive terms. This list shows the resources which are tagged with ‘Vietnam War’.
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An 'Operation Babylift' baby grows up
Shane Bolt is at Yallingup beach, Western Australia, and reflects on the good fortune of his life, family and culture.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Australian Soldiers on Patrol in Vietnam
What does it feel like to be a soldier at war? Tense young
Australian soldiers creep through the Vietnamese jungle, ever on the alert for the Viet Cong.
NSW / Stage 5 / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 5 Australia in the Vietnam War Era
VIC / VCE Unit 1 / English / Unit 1
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Vietnam War
NSW / Stage 4 / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 6 HSC / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 6 Preliminary / English / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 6 HSC / ESL / Australians at war
NSW / Stage 6 HSC / ESL / Australians at war
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Bruce Dawe - Anti War Poet
This encounter with highly regarded Australian poet Bruce Dawe allows us an insight into the motivation and methods of a very fine writer. His ability to express the drama and beauty of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to the general public.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Poetry
QLD / Year 10 / English / Poetry
QLD / Year 11 & 12 / English / Poetry
National / Year 11 & 12 / English and Media Literacy / Poetry
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Choosing who you want to be
The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Cuc Lam's Suitcase
It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 5 Australia in the Vietnam War Era
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 6 Changing Rights and Freedoms
VIC / VELS Level 6 / History / Vietnam War
NSW / Stage 4/5 / History Elective / Topic 1 Constructing History
VIC / VCE Unit 2 / Geography / 2: Changes in human environments
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Vietnam War
NSW / Stage 6 HSC / English / Belonging
National / Year 9 & 10 / Civics and Citizenship / Historical perspectives
QLD / Year 10 / English / Representation
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![From Saigon to Perth - a Vietnam War orphan thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/asiaed/clips/saigontn.jpg) |
From Saigon to Perth - a Vietnam War orphan
Surfie Shane is at Yallingup beach in Western Australia where he lives. Shane was one of the babies adopted through the ‘Operation Babylift’ airlift from Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Harold Holt's Australia
Harold Holt’s prime ministership represented a major social shift from the tradition and conservatism of the Menzies era, to that of the ‘swinging sixties’.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Post-World War 2 Society
National / Upper Primary / Civics and Citizenship / Australia in the 1960s
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Harold Holt’s Briefcase
The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories. The items left in his briefcase are a significant time capsule of his last days as Prime Minister.
National / Year 11 & 12 / History / 1960s
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![Holt Government in Crisis thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/timeline/clips/holtgovtn.jpg) |
Holt Government in Crisis
The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister, Harold Holt, at Cheviot Beach in 1966 during a beach holiday sparked countless conspiracy theories and ultimately overshadowed his political accomplishments.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
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Intercountry adoption and cultural identity
Shane Bolt was one of 281 children airlifted out of Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War and brought to Australia. He was adopted by a Western Australian family. Shane’s Australian mother, Frea, remembers how the family fought anti-Asian sentiment in Perth.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Kids are never yours forever – they're on loan
The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon in Vietnam, in 1975.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Life in modern Hanoi
Four generations of Professor Huong’s family share a meal. The professor is concerned that his son, Tuan, will not follow his profession in classical music.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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Meet Professor Huong of Hanoi
Professor Huong, a cellist, was a member of the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. He survived the war by hiding in an underground refuge in rural village near Hanoi.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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![Operation Babylift thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/diy/clips/operationbabylifttn.jpg) |
Operation Babylift
The stories of three Vietnamese-Australians who were among more than 3000 babies airlifted from Saigon orphanages at the end of the Vietnam War.
National / Year 11 & 12 / Australian Studies / Society and Culture
National / Year 11 & 12 / English / Adoption
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Robert Menzies’ Camera
Robert Menzies’ lifelong passion for home movies resulted in a surprisingly personal record of the war years, including footage of a young Princess Elizabeth.
NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 5 Australia in the Vietnam War Era
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Biography
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce's Cigarette Case
Stanley Melbourne Bruce treasured Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s gift of a gold cigarette case throughout his life.
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Australians at war
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![The Death of Harold Holt thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/timeline/clips/holtdeathtn.jpg) |
The Death of Harold Holt
With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy.
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Australian Prime Ministers
National / Upper Primary / Australian History / Prime Minister Holt
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Two birthdays, two names and one child
The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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![Two fathers, two mothers - one child thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/asiaed/clips/vietnamesetn.jpg) |
Two fathers, two mothers - one child
The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Identity
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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![Vietnam Symphony - an underground symphony family thumbnail](//fadlmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/asiaed/clips/symphonytn.jpg) |
Vietnam Symphony - an underground symphony family
Tuan observes that his father’s reunion with the Xuan Phu villagers is just like a family reunion. His father was a cellist in the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra that took refuge in the village during the Vietnam War.
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / English and Media Literacy / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
National / Year 7 & 8 / Society and Environment / Engaging with Asia
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