Breaker Morant ('Breaker' Morant)

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" 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 same name, the film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton, one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history. Australians serving in the British Army during the Second Anglo-Boer War, Morant, Handcock, and Witton stood accused of murdering captured enemy combatants and "

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"In South Africa during the Second Boer War, Australian Army Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton stand accused of the murders of 6 Boer prisoners and the assassination of a German missionary. British Commander-in-Chief Lord Kitchener is determined to see the men found guilty, which he can use as a bargaining chip in an impending peace conference with the Boers. Edward Woodward heads the cast of this great movie about a true story of three British soldiers court-m"