Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian war drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, who co-wrote the screenplay based on Kenneth G. Ross's 1978 play of the...
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Harry Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902), better known as Breaker Morant, was an English horseman, bush balladist...
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court-martial of Breaker Morant was a war crimes prosecution that brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock,...
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Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts is an Australian play written by Kenneth G. Ross, centred on the court-martial and the last days of Lieutenant Harry...
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acts". Court-martial of Breaker Morant Breaker Morant (play) Breaker Morant (film) Charles Leach (2012), The Legend of Breaker Morant is Dead and Buried....
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stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant. With the support of the South Australian Film Corporation...
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in South Africa. After a court martial, Handcock (along with Harry "Breaker" Morant) was convicted and executed for the murders of nine Boer POWs and three...
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uninhabited island The Breaker (film), a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant Breaker (Accept album), 1981 Breaker (For Today album), 2010 Breaker (Vary Lumar album)...
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The Breaker is a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant directed by Frank Shields. It was the first film from Frank Shields. He says he was inspired to...
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Bruce Beresford (category Australian film directors)
AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations Beresford's films include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Driving...
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Terence Donovan (actor) (section Film)
Australia, on 2 February 1978. (Donovan also appeared in the 1980 film Breaker Morant, but in a subsidiary role, rather than as the title character). In...
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Benedict Wall (category New Zealand male film actors)
Fortune, Underbelly: Badness, Breaker Morant: The Retrial and Pirates of the Airwaves. Wall co-wrote and directed the short film Best Mates. In 2016, he took...
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Bryan Brown (category Australian male film actors)
over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give...
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New Wave war films such as Breaker Morant (1980), Gallipoli (1981), and the 5-part TV series Anzacs (1985). Recurring themes of these films include the...
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Bushveldt Carbineers (section Breaker Morant)
on 1 December 1902 The 1980 film Breaker Morant portrays the unit in which Australian Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock were serving...
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Lieutenant-General Viscount Kitchener, albeit Lieutenants Peter Handcock and Harry "Breaker" Morant, who were court martialled with him, were both executed by firing squad...
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ISBN 0-89577-414-3 "Review noting Captain Queeg cross examination". "'Breaker' Morant, A film review by Christopher Null". Excerpt of cross examination in A...
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Morant, responded with a series of revenge killings of both POWs and many local civilians. This led directly to the Court-martial of Breaker Morant,...
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for his novel The Breaker (1973), based on the story of Breaker Morant. Although it was widely assumed that the film Breaker Morant was based on Denton's...
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New Wave war film Breaker Morant (1980) and preceded the 5-part TV series Anzacs (1985), and The Lighthorsemen (1987). Themes of these films include the...
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Edward Woodward (category English male film actors)
in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man, and in the title role of the 1980 Australian biopic Breaker Morant. From 1985 to 1989, Woodward starred...
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to appear in a straight period film closer to Breaker Morant. However Jenkins and Thomson's vision prevailed. The film was not a success. Director Mike...
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Jonathan Hardy (category Australian male film actors)
Beresford he co-wrote the screenplay for the film Breaker Morant: for which he received an Australian Film Institute award (1980), and was nominated for...
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(1985) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Oscar and Lucinda (2000) 'Breaker' Morant (1980) The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915) Murphy of Anzac (1916) Gallipoli...
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Donald McAlpine (section Feature film)
After My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant and The Getting of Wisdom were released, Paul Mazursky offered him work on the film Tempest.[citation needed]...
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film starring American singer Laura Branigan. The film was written and directed by Academy Award nominee Jonathan Hardy, who had also written Breaker...
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feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: All That Jazz by Bob Fosse Being There by Hal Ashby The Big Red One by Samuel Fuller Breaker Morant by Bruce...
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inaccuracies in his earlier book, including the incorrect spelling. In the film Breaker Morant he is played by Bruno Knez. Wallace, R. L. (1983). "Handcock, Peter...
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David Stevens (screenwriter) (redirect from David Stevens (film director))
2018) was an Australian writer and director, best known for his work on Breaker Morant, A Town Like Alice, and The Sum of Us. Stevens was born in 1940 in Tiberias...
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Vincent Ball (category Australian male film actors)
Ball is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and television films, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding...
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