Bryan Brown, George Takei, John Polson and Russell Crowe in his feature film debut head a brilliant cast that dramatically reveals for the first time the shattering secrets trapped within a BLOOD OATH.

BLOOD OATH on DVD contains many exclusive and educational special features from behind the scenes footage, to study guide materials and for the first time the original documents from the Ambon War Crimes trials, which explain the entire trial process. Also available on the BLOOD OATH DVD is the Music Video Memorial Day by Russell Crowe's band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.      

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Brian A. Williams. Blood Oath: Where does War End and Murder Begin? Based on the screenplay by Denis Whitburn and Brian A. Williams. HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd.

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A fictionalization of the true story of the author's father, the prosecutor for the Australian war crimes tribunal, who set out to prove the guilt of the Japanese officer who had ordered the execution of 300 Australian prisoners of war in 1945.

"My grandfather was a cinematographer in the second world war.

His name was Stanley Wemyss.

He shot photographs in all the, all theatres of war that Australia and New Zealand troops worked in.  He got a lot of medals for his work but one specific medal, it was called the M.B.E.,

that's the Member of the British Empire.

It's presented to you by the Queen,

the Queen of England.

He was hired to record the destruction and

it depressed him throughout his whole life.

I mean he saw some pretty horrific things.

He died in about 1988 and this song is for him.

It's called... 'Memorial Day.'" 

 Image above and Sound excerpt below of Russell Crowe and text adjoining -- © Gruntland LLC 2001 By Non-Exclusive License to 

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ATOM/Metro Study Guide: A Journey From Blind Justice To Soaring Compassion. Blood Oath: A Study Guide. Jointly written by Jane Landman/ATOM and Brian A. Williams/

Blood Oath.

Contains curriculum ideas, discussion points, questions and Internet links to suggested research sites.

"Blood Oath: a 'Reel History'", by Prof. Hank Nelson. Originally published in Australian Journal of Historical Studies, 1991.

An extensive bibliography containing books and videos from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. Numerous newspaper articles.

Original mass trial documents.

Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, August 12, 1949                 (Geneva Convention).

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), June 8, 1977.

Original maps of Ambon, Halong (Ambon) Naval Air Base, Tan Toey POW Camp.

Opening address by Prosecutor Capt. John M.

Williams at mass trial on Ambon.

Original documents from the trial of Lt. Hideo Katayama, the officer on whom the Lt. Tanaka character was based, including the full transcript of his trial and other documents arranged in procedural order from investigation to sentence and execution.

Original correspondence between Japanese officials and Prosecutor John M. Williams.

The full text of the book written by the Chief Japanese Defending Officer Mr. Somiya Shinji about the Ambon trials, published for the first time since 1946.

Address by Writer/Producer Brian A. Williams for the 50th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. Moscow, 1999.

The life and death of John Myles Williams,  1915-1994, with accompanying eulogies and Japanese responses.

Australian War Memorial

National Archives of Australia

ENHANCE TV Study Guide (.pdf file)

Berry Digital Media

Gruntland.com TOFOG

IMDb Prisoners of the Sun

Urban Cinefile

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