A Street to Die is a 1985 Australian film directed by Bill Bennett and starring Chris Haywood, Jennifer Cluff, Arianthe Galani.

[4][5] Colin Turner (Chris Haywood), an Australian Vietnam War veteran, blames his recently-discovered cancer on exposure to Agent Orange, and sues the government for compensation, as well as legal recognition of the defoliant’s fatal health effects.

The film was based on the story of Colin Simpson, a Vietnam veteran who had died while trying to claim money from the Repatriation Department.

Simpson lived in a street in Whalen, a suburb in Western Sydney, where a number of people had health issues.

[2][6] Bill Bennett read about the story in a 1981 article in the Weekend Australian while working as a TV documentary maker.

To that extent, I suppose, it is an anti-war film, but it was more to do with anti-bureaucracy and a very, very strong sense of injustice, that ultimately what was at work here was the possibility that, if a precedent was established, then huge amounts of money would have to be paid out.

[7]The film was shot primarily in the suburbs of Western Sydney and in the Whalan street where Simpson and his family had lived.