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Tagged: Boer War

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Lumière
The Lumière Collection includes some of the oldest footage in the NFSA collection: over 30 short films made in 1899. Produced by Frederick Charles Wills and Henry William Mobsby, these films record...
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Breaker Morant: ‘This is what comes of Empire building’
Morant (Edward Woodward) and Handcock (Bryan Brown) march to their executions. Their lawyer, Major Thomas (Jack Thompson) lingers in their makeshift cell – which looks to be a stable – to consider...
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Breaker Morant: 'The gentleman's war is over'
In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward). When...
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Breaker Morant: 'The penalty is death'
Morant (Edward Woodward), Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) meet their lawyer, Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson), a country solicitor. It is one day before their trial is to start...
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Boer War Transvaal Contingent
This actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby in 1899. Crowds line the...
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Loading Horses on the SS Cornwall in 1899
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry lead some reluctant horses down a ramp to board the SS Cornwall on 31 October 1899 in Brisbane, prior to departing for the Boer War. Summary Elizabeth...
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Breaker Morant
Director Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (Australia, 1980) was a tense psychological drama of injustice and brutal pragmatism in which the British put a group of Australians on trial for killing a...
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