Anzac Day on television

Maori Television has Anzac Day-related programming all day, from the 6am dawn service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum until the Last Post at 11.30pm.

Senior journalist Wena Harawira and former One News presenter Judy Bailey will steer a day which includes a studio discussion on the role of women in the war, a documentary on 28 (Maori) Battalion and Gaylene Preston's War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us. Panel regulars on Ask Your Auntie offer advice and comedy show B&B offers Anzac Day specials.

TV One has coverage of the 60th anniversary celebrations of VJ Day in Wellington from 7am to 8.30am. At 10am is a five-minute interlude for an Anzac Day memorial and at 11am is the Anzac wreath-laying ceremony.

Sky has special programmes on the History Channel and Sky News.

The highlight on the History Channel is the non-Mel Gibson version of Gallipoli - a film by Turkish director Tolga Örnek and narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill. On at 9.30pm, it was made over six years and in seven different countries, using newly uncovered diaries, letters, dramatic re-enactments and interviews to tell the story behind the Gallipoli battle.

History Channel will also show documentaries Gallipoli: Untold Stories, Britain's Boy Soldiers, and First World War.

For a transtasman touch, check out Sky News coverage of the Sydney dawn service at 6am, followed by Gallipoli coverage live throughout the day.

At 11am Prime will repeat the Paul Holmes Anzac special which screened last night in which Holmes discusses the history of the Victoria Cross with military historians Glyn Harper and John Tonkin-Covell.