"But then I just reminded myself we have emu puppets. I think that always brought us back to 'this is too ridiculous to upset people'." Morrissey agrees. "If you did it like World War II ...

Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, THE EMU WAR follows a rag tag platoon of soldiers who are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia's deadliest flightless beasts.

Military historian Mark Dapin takes a road trip through the WA Wheatbelt in search of the sites of the Emu War of 1932. At the heart of the eastern Wheatbelt town of Merredin, Western Australia ...