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The V2 rocket on display in Trafalgar Square, London in September 1945.

The Vengeance Weapon Series: What is the V2 Rocket?

The first video in a new series about the V2 rocket.

Second World War

Ripples of Wartime: Ruth Clare

Ruth is the daughter of a Returned National Serviceman who served in Vietnam.

Vietnam War

Front side view of a Caribou aircraft on an airstrip with snow capped mountains in the background

Not your standard milk run

Super 8 footage of a peacekeeping operation in India and Pakistan during the mid 70s.

By Rebecca Forster-Osbourne

Peacekeeping

A group of seven Australians standing around a microphrone. Squadron Leader James Catanach is in the centre.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape, the largest Allied prisoner of war breakout of the Second World War.

Second World War

Informal portrait of Miss Evelyn Chapman

The battlefield brushstrokes of Evelyn Chapman

The first Australian female artist to portray the aftermath on the Western Front.

First World War

Ripples of Wartime: Lynn Arnold

Lynn Arnold was an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War.

Vietnam War

Ripples of Wartime

Ripples of Wartime is a series of 12 short interviews with Australians about the Vietnam War.

By Sarah Kershaw

Vietnam War

Portrait of Trung Nghia Ton in his Australian Army uniform.

Ripples of Wartime: Trung Nghia Ton

Trung Nghia Ton was born in Australia to parents who fled Vietnam after the war.

Vietnam War

Neville Sinkinson sits in a helicopter during the early 1970s

Ripples of Wartime: Neville Sinkinson

Neville Sinkinson served in Vietnam as a RAAF helicopter crewman in 1970 and 1971.

Vietnam War

A Glass Tribute

Two glass sculptural installations have been hand-made by artist, Annette Blair.

Preliminary works have just commenced as workmen prepare the site for the construction of the extensions to the AWM main building undertaken between 1968 and 1970.

An early renovation

Ernest Thain’s film shows the construction of two new wings between 1968 - 1971

By Emma White

Australia Prepared

In 1916, the government sponsored war documentaries to be screened around Australia.

By Sarah Kershaw

First World War

Patriots Australia Military Motorcycle Club members at the memorial

Riding in memory

The Afghanistan Avenue of Honour: a refuge and a place of contemplation, sorrow and love.

By Terri-Anne Simmonds

Afghanistan

First Qantas Baby Lift flight from Bangkok to Australia on 5 April 1975.

Operation Babylift, 50 years on

In early April 1975, the RAAF joined a daring US-led mission — Operation Babylift

Vietnam War

The untold story of Sister Edith Blake

The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War.

First World War

Movie still from They serve that men may fly [AWM F10244]

The Home (movie) Front

During the Second World War, Australian servicemen and servicewomen captured their lives on film

By Sarah Kershaw

Second World War

Servicemen sit among the sandhills of El Alamein for a church service in September 1942

Sermon on the Sandhills

Sometimes the footage is not the most interesting part of a film.

By Sarah Kershaw

Second World War