25 April is a 2015 New Zealand animated documentary film about the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign directed by Leanne Pooley.
In New Zealand, Newshub's Tony Wright gave it four-and-a-half stars and described it as "startlingly original", praising the use of animation to depict the "depravity" of war.
[3] The New Zealand Herald's Peter Calder similarly called it "evocative and moving", adding that the recreation of first-hand accounts of soldiers and a nurse "knit together to provide a comprehensive account of the doomed eight-month campaign to take the peninsula whose name resounds through our national myth.
He wrote that it lacked "any sort of context or overview", failed to focus on any Ottoman soldiers and was "unoriginal".
They also noted the film-makers' "almost exclusive focus on what the New Zealand and Australian forces endured" and failure to "convey the enormity of the Ottoman Empire's casualties.