Some movies have managed to depict the century-old conflict that was World War I with startling realism, including 1917 and Paths of Glory.

In the process, the ANZACs met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turk defenders (as dramatized in the 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli starring a young Mel Gibson), with horrific casualties ...

One lovely effect deployed with a seasoned scriptwriter’s skill is the interpolation of passages from Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, which Vizard rightly describes as a masterpiece.

"Every day, things change. I’ll say this: I look forward to dying," Weir, 77, told Rolling Stone. "I tend to think of death as the last and best reward for a life well-lived. That’s it.

So we’re all stakeholders in the story.” Weir, who also made such films as “Gallipoli,” “Fearless,” “Dead Poets Society” and “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ...

It was the third feature film at the time from director Peter Weir - way before he would go on to make The Last Wave, Gallipoli, The Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show ...

Producers, Robert Stigwood; Patricia Lovell; director, Peter Weir; screenplay, David Williamson. Tells the story of two young men who take part in the campaign at Gallipoli. It tells of their ...

He must survive in the desert and also rescue others. Peter Weir's military drama film depicts two Australian sprinters who are ordered to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I ...

VENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Peter Weir, the Australian director of "The Truman Show", "Gallipoli" and "Dead Poets Society", was handed a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival on ...

Weir was a leading figure in 1970s Australian cinema, with his cult classic films Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Cars That Ate Paris. His domestic success was followed by Gallipoli and The Year ...