Starring
Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Aden Young

By 1916 the Great War in Europe has reached a stalemate. The two massive armies have fought themselves to a standstill. Millions of lives have already been lost. Brendan Cowell leads a superb ensemble cast as mining engineer Oliver Woodward, who returns to Australia from Papua to join a secret Australian Tunnelling Company. Miners from all over the country are given just two weeks military training before being sent the Western Front. Their task is to undermine the German Lines.

There is resentment too from the British Infantry, who are convinced that the tunnellers will put them in even greater danger. But after leading a daring raid across No Man's Land to destroy an enemy machine gun emplacement, Woodward begins to win the respect of his men and the infantry.

With the intensity of the war increasing, Woodward and his men are sent across the border to Belgium near Ypres. The Messines Ridge with its notorious Hill 60 is rumoured to be the bloodiest part of the Western Front. The tunnels hide a deadly secret. Directly beneath strategic sections of the German lines, the allies have crammed the largest amount of explosive ever collected in one place.

Woodward's company must protect the tunnel system until he receives the order to blow the mines. But no one seems to know when the order will be given. Disaster looms as the Germans discover the Australian's underground activity and begin sinking a shaft towards the Hill 60 mine. The whole allied strategy is now in jeopardy.

Directed by
Jeremy Sims