Country of origin Singapore | Running time 6-8 minutes | |
No. of episodes 18 episodes (Cyberpioneer, YouTube and National Geographic Channel)
7 episodes (Mediacorp Channel 5) Original network YouTube
National Geographic Channel
Mediacorp Channel 5 Original release July 7 – November 1, 2010 | ||
Every Singaporean Son is a Singaporean documentary released in 2010. It serves as an education tool for all pre-enlistees during their Basic Military Training in Singapore. Most of the episodes were filmed at Pulau Tekong. 18 episodes were released. The first episode airs on 7 July 2010 on YouTube, subsequent episodes were released on every Tuesday, each clip lasted for 6 to 8 minutes.
Contents
National Geographic Channel ordered the series and it will be aired in six episodes (30 minutes per episode) from 8 March 2011.
In August 2011, the season branched out to another 6-part series named: Every Singaporean Son – Epilogue.
The documentary was nominated for "Best Cross-Platform Content" at the 16th Asian Television Awards 2011, but the series lost to the Indian series The CJ Show.
On 16 August 2012, the series branched out to its second season of Every Singaporean Son, premiering every Thursday of the week, it will be named: Every Singaporean Son II - The Making of an Officer. The series will concentrate on batch of cadets training to be officers in OCS Officer Cadet School, it will last for 20 to 25 episodes.
The show aired on Mediacorp Channel 5 on Mondays at 7pm from 31 March 2014 to 5 May 2014, each episode will last 30 minutes (including commercial breaks), the 18 short episode series will be compacted into 7 episodes.
Plot
In nine weeks, 15 young men from different backgrounds came together for the rite of passage that every Singaporean son must experience, which is to survive the 9 weeks of Basic Military Training. The documentary is split into 18 episodes allowing all pre-enlistees and parents understand the life in BMT.
Cast
Here are the cast in this documentary: