History Film / Apaches

It focuses on six children who pretend to be Apaches (the American Indian tribe) in their make-believe. They play their games on a farm where, one by one, they fall victim to fatal accidents. After that, they continue as if nothing happened, until only one is left.

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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Taken UpToEleven. When one of the kids dies, the rest of them are acting in the next scene as if nothing happened.

* DownerEnding: Everyone except Micheal dies horribly.

* AdultFear: The point of the film was to show how dangerous it is for children to play recklessly around farm equipment, so this is a given.
* AnAesop: Farms are not playgrounds.

* [[IAteWHAT I Drank WHAT?!]]: Poor Sharon.

** [[spoiler: She even spit most of it out. Not like it could have saved her though, given the likely ingredients (see the YMMV tab for a bit more elaboration).]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JjyoEhCuo You can watch Guru Larry's review here]]. [https://youtu.be/P0PUMmVU4qQ Orr if you prefer, you can watch the entire film here]].

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JjyoEhCuo You can watch Guru Larry's review here]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQZaUixmpA Or if you prefer, you can watch the entire film, in restored quality, here]].

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a junior school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was produced by Graphic Films for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive. It was not only shown in schools, but it was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a junior school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was produced by Graphic Films for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive. It was not only shown in schools, but it was also broadcast on television by many {{Creator/ITV}} companies, and particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a junior school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was produced by Graphic Films for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive. It was not only shown in schools, but was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

* DeerInTheHeadlights: Danny's expression every time one of his friends is killed, or about to be.

* TooDumbToLive: Just about all the children. They do stupid things that get them killed, and then keep on doing them.
** The parents and the farmers count as well, since they keep letting the kids run around the farm without supervision.
** Sadly, this is very much a case of TruthInTelevision, as many children do indeed die in farm accidents such as those seen in the film each year.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a junior school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was created for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive by Graphic Films. It was not only shown in schools, but was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

* {{Bookends:}} [[spoiler: Kim and Danny are respectively the first and last child to die, and both deaths result from the misuse of a tractor.]]

* AdultFear: Pure 100% Concentrated This.

''Apaches'' is a 1977 public information film from the United Kingdom. Intended to remind children of the dangers of playing around with farm equipment, this 26 minute long film was distributed to and screened at schools all over Britain. The film was directed by John Mackenzie, written by Neville Smith, and produced by John Arnold and Leon Clore.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a Maidenhead (A large town in Berkshire) junior school, and was created for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive by Graphic Films. It was not only shown in schools, but was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

Oddly, while most of the staff were credited in the film, none of the children who starred in the film were given credit.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a Maidenhead (A large town in Berkshire) junior school, and was created for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive by Graphic Films. It was not only shown in schools, but was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, and Anglia, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.

* OnlySaneMan - Michael, the 'daft' one in the bunch, survives everything. He refuses to drink from the bottle found in the tool shed (which [[spoiler:contains deadly Paraquat]]) [[note]]and in fact, none of the children drink from the questionable substance except Sharon, whose idea it was to "mime" drinking it "like in the school play", only to forget and take a swig for real--which ends up sealing her doom.[[/note]], and always seems to be lagging slightly behind all the others. It turns out that he [[spoiler:has a reason to be concerned]].

* AdultFear - Pure 100% Concentrated This.
* DeerInTheHeadlights - Danny's (the narrator) expression every time one of his friends is killed, or about to be.

* ForgottenFallenFriend - Taken UpToEleven. When one of the kids dies, the rest of them are acting in the next scene as if nothing happened.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg - Four out of the six kids get proper introductions. The last two? "Tom, Robert."

* ScreamDiscretionShot - Poor, '''poor''' Sharon.

* TimeDelayedDeath - [[spoiler: Sharon unintentionally drinks weed killer]] and just decides to walk it off. It doesn't kick in until a few hours later, when [[spoiler: [[ScreamDiscretionShot she wakes up screaming in agony in the middle of the night]].]]

* TooDumbToLive - Just about all the children. They do stupid things that get them killed, and then keep on doing them.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a Maidenhead junior school, and was created for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive by Graphic Films. It was not only shown in schools, but was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, and Anglia, whose regions covered large agricultural areas.