Breaker Morant - Closing Argument
1980 Australian feature film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford
Breaker Morant (Part 4)
Part 4 of "Breaker Morant" from 1982. Via witness testimony, we now get to the first major incident that took place after Captain Hunt ...
Morant breakthrough
JUBILANT lawyer Jim Unkles is hoping to celebrate a breakthrough in his bid for a pardon for Harry “Breaker” Morant with a visit to Tenterfield.Attorney-General Robert McClelland has committed to a review of whether Morant and colleagues Peter Handcock and George Witton received a fair trial from the Pietersburg court martial following the shooting of 12 Boer prisoners in 1902.
Morant and Handcock were found guilty and shot by a firing squad, while Witton was sentenced to life in prison.
Mr Unkles, a military lawyer, has campaigned for the case to be revisited since he watched Bruce Beresford’s 1980 film Breaker Morant and became interested in the case defended by Tenterfield man and former proprietor of The Tenterfield Star, J. F. Thomas.
Mr Unkles met with Mr McClelland recently, where the Attorney-General said the case would be reviewed.
"A key issue that was discussed today was whether Breaker Morant and the co-accused were denied procedural fairness in the process
Breaker Morant 1980 - Bookshelf
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Breaker Morant, a horseman who made history : with a selection of his bush ballads |
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History in the media, film and television The Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) “Breaker” Morant (1980) In the 1970s Australia's Labor Party regime headed by Edward Gough Whitlam (succeeded in 1975 by ... |
Breaker Morant 1980 - News
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No pardon for Breaker Morant Morant has since become a storied figure in Australian history, particularly after Kit Denton's 1973 novel The Breaker and Bruce Beresford's 1980 film, based on Kenneth Ross's play. A push by James Unkles for the reconsideration of Morant's case, |
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Battle history a script that is constantly rewritten High points are easy to name: 40000 Horsemen (1940), about the Light Horse's charge at Beersheba in 1917, the Boer War classic Breaker Morant (1980), The Odd Angry Shot (1979), with Graham Kennedy, Bryan Brown and John Hargreaves as knockabout troops |
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The power of film captures our lives in war High points are easy to name: 40,0000 Horsemen (1940), about the Light Horse's charge at Beersheeba in 1917, the Boer War classic Breaker Morant (1980), The Odd Angry Shot (1979), with Graham Kennedy, Bryan Brown and John Hargreaves as knockabout |
