The Forgotten Soldiers

SBS

We all have a family history. But how true is it? Journalist Sami Shah sees a photo of a uniformed soldier in his family’s history, having no idea that South Asians fought in World War I. What starts as an ancestry rabbit hole soon becomes a murder investigation amidst the chaos of The Great War, and reveals the forgotten war history of over a million men.

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The Forgotten Soldiers

Episodes (5)

Yesterday 4: The War That Forgot Them
Yesterday 3: The Enemy of My Enemy
Yesterday 2: The Horsemen and the Missing Man

The Forgotten Soldiers

Nov 10, 2026
29½ minutes
27 MB

As the mystery of Rifatullah Shah is finally solved, Sami Shah considers the legacy of the more than one million Indian soldiers who served in World War I. Sami has the details and reveals the truth about the last hours of Rifatullah Shah’s life. War is not just battles, but boredom, ill health and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which still deserves to be remembered. And in his search, Sami discovers that even with the white Australia policy, the ANZACs had several Indian born soldiers in its ranks, and he meets one of th...

The Forgotten Soldiers

4: The War That Forgot Them

SBS

00:00 -29:26