| Uniform Title |
Breaker Morant : The retrial (Documentary television program) |
| Title |
Breaker Morant : the retrial. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2014. |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (99 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3125. |
| Originally released as a documentary television program in 2013. |
| Special features: Interviews with Charles Leach, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Sir Laurence Street QC, Greg Hunt, Peter Latta, Susanna De Vries, Tim Fischer ; Trailers. |
| "Celebrated war hero or condemned criminal?" -- Cover. |
| Credits |
Directed by Gregory Miller and Nick Bleszynski. |
| Performers |
Presented by Neil Pigot with Benedict Wall as Breaker Morant. |
| Summary |
Breaker Morant: The Retrial explores the origins and the character of Harry 'The Breaker' Morant, the Englishman who became an Australian legend. From his origins in England where he claimed to be the illegitimate offspring of a titled admiral, through to his exile in Australia where he established The Breaker legend as a hard-living larrikin bushman, to his work as a famed poet alongside Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson and finally as an Australian soldier serving in the Boer War. Featuring Australian actor Ben Wall as Harry 'Breaker' Morant and using dramatic re-enactments shot on location in Australia and South Africa, Breaker Morant: The Retrial finally uncovers what really happened over a century ago. Morant, along with fellow Australian soldier Peter Handcock, was tried and executed by the British Imperial Army in 1902, for shooting Boer prisoners while serving during the Boer War in 1901. But new evidence examining the way the trial was conducted reveals serious errors in the legal process. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| System details |
DVD video, Dolby digital 2.0, PAL, Region All, widescreen 16:9, 1.77:1. |
| Language note |
In English. No subtitles. |
| Subjects |
Morant, Breaker, -- 1864?-1902 |
| Trials (Military offenses) -- South Africa |
| South African War, 1899-1902 |
| Documentary television programs -- United States |
| Television programs, American |
| Genre |
Historical television programs |
| Documentary television programs |
| Nonfiction television programs |
| Television series |
| Other Names |
Miller, Gregory director. |
| Bleszynski, Nick director. |
| Pigot, Neil onscreen presenter. |
| Wall, Benedict actor. |
| Added Corporate Names |
Screen Australia |
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