(MENAFN- The Conversation) With the release of the first-world-war film Gallipoli in 1981, director Peter Weir could finally shrug off the nickname he had laboured under since making his first films: ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. April 2015 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign, the failed invasion of modern-day Turkey ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australians have turned the scene of a military rout into a shrine to nation-building heroism. In April 1961 Victorian author Betty ...

Starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, Gallipoli (dir. Peter Weir 1981) is an Australian war drama. Narrated in the historical background of the World War I, the film provides a faithful portrayal of life ...