Keen as Mustard

Genre

documentary film

How it feels

This documentary investigates secret World War II experiments on Australian servicemen volunteers. The tests studied how mustard gas worked as a weapon in tropical conditions. The film uses historic footage and firsthand accounts from participants.

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What happens

Keen as Mustard is a documentary film researched and directed by Bridget Goodwin detailing secret experiments conducted during World War II on Australian servicemen volunteers to investigate the effects of, and precautions against, mustard gas when used as a weapon in the tropics. The film, released by Film Australia in 1989, contains extensive historic documentary footage and accounts by several participants, and was made possible by the overseas acquisition of documents that remained restricted by the Australian government. A book of the same name was published in 1998, containing much additional material due to the release of some formerly restricted documents by the AWM in 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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