The Galahs

2016

Action / Documentary

IMDb Rating 8.2/10 10 29 29

Plot summary

In 1967 a group of Victorian AFL (VFL) stars jetted off to challenge the All-Ireland champions, County Meath, at their own game. The players were, and are, household names – Barassi, Skilton, Jesaulenko, Davis, Hart, Nicholls, Mann, Dugdale, Fraser. Most didn’t own passports. Most had barely been out of Victoria. Ex-umpire and media juggernaut Harry Beitzel was the man who made it happen. He mortgaged his house. He organised the opponent. He flew his team of champions on a milk run to Darwin, Hong Kong, Paris, Dublin, London, New York and beyond to plant the seed of international competition. The Galahs is a rare feature film that reconnects fans with all time greats of both VFL and GAA football.

Director

Top cast

Ken Fraser as Self
Bob Keddie as Self
Ian Law as Self
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
530.99 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
12 hr 57 min
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1.06 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
us  
25 fps
12 hr 57 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by elanus-73703

Historic AFL documentary

This movie is a documentary about Australian football. Now before you switch off, just read this synopsis.You no doubt feel the same way about this topic as most Australians do when we see movies about American football, or soccer, for that matter.Imagine that your super bowl champions (if you're American) visit England to play the English champions at soccer, or that the Premier League soccer champions (if you're British or European) visit the USA to play the champions of their American football game. An impossible quest, surely.But it happened here, and the Australians defeated the Irish champions.A composite Australian Rules Football team visited Ireland to play their Gaelic football champions, being completely ignorant of that game. Some rules were modified to accommodate both sides, the most important of which was retaining a round ball (Australian football uses an oval ball) and retaining the scoring posts and rules used in Ireland.Just think how hard it is to win a national title in any country if you are a team competing for that title, then imagine a team from overseas that, having never played the game before, defeats those national champions. An amazing story.Incidentally, the title (The Galahs) was the name chosen by this visiting team and is the name of a brightly-coloured Australian cockatoo.
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