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Australia and New Zealand already have a longstanding "Anzac bond", he said, pointing to their history fighting side-by-side at Gallipoli in World War One.

Somehow, the same bloke responsible for Australian classics like “Gallipoli” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock” was also the director of very American favorites like “Dead Poets Society” and “The Truman Show.”

But the biggest blow to the Allied cause in 1915 was the failure of the Gallipoli campaign, an attempt to force Turkey out of the war and to open a supply route from the Mediterranean to southern Russia.

The Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey commanded the entrance to the heavily fortified Dardanelles, the narrow waterway connecting the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea and Russia beyond.

April 25 is the date in 1915 when the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the beaches of Gallipoli, in northwest Turkey, in an ill-fated campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.