Screenplay: David Stevens
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by David Stevens. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Breaker Morant
1980 · Movie · 107 min. · Australia
Direction Bruce Beresford
Cast Edward Woodward · Jack Thompson · John Waters · Bryan Brown
Plot During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who...
6.9
366 votes
6.9
366 votes
The Sum of Us
1994 · Movie · 100 min. · Australia
Direction Geoff Burton · Kevin Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson · Russell Crowe · John Polson · Deborah Kennedy
Plot Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of...
6.5
388 votes
6.5
388 votes
Merlin (TV Miniseries)
1998 · Series · 182 min. · United States
Direction Steve Barron
Cast Sam Neill · Helena Bonham Carter · Miranda Richardson · John Gielgud
Plot In a time long past, when magic was fading from the world of men, the malevolent sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned forth a mighty wizard to keep the power of...
5.8
3K votes
5.8
3K votes
Crime and Punishment (TV)
1998 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Patrick Dempsey · Ben Kingsley · Julie Delpy · Eddie Marsan
5.7
172 votes
5.7
172 votes
Alex Haley's Queen (TV Miniseries)
1993 · Series · 282 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Ann-Margret · Halle Berry · Patricia Clarkson · Danny Glover
Plot A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a light-skinned daughter named Queen. As Queen growns up, she faces the struggle of...
5.6
64 votes
5.6
64 votes
Mama Flora's Family (TV)
1998 · Movie · 180 min. · United States
Direction Peter Werner
Cast Cicely Tyson · Erika Alexander · Blair Underwood · Mario Van Peebles
Plot Cicely Tyson stars in the title role of the aging matriarch of a black family whose life of struggle, tragedy and perseverance is chronicled in this moving drama based on...
5.5
341 votes
5.5
341 votes
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (TV)
1996 · Movie · 178 min. · Australia
Direction Kevin James Dobson
Cast Richard Chamberlain · Amanda Donohoe · Simon Westaway · Julia Blake
Plot Actually taking place in the middle of the original Thorn Birds miniseries, which chronicled the love affair of Meggie Cleary and Fr. Ralph de Bricassart from 1920 to 1962, this...
4.8
576 votes
4.8
576 votes
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (TV)
1999 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction Mikael Salomon
Cast Tom Skerritt · Sharon Lawrence · Charles S. Dutton · Lisa Nicole Carson
Plot New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city. Countless lives are lost, families are...
3.3
88 votes
3.3
88 votes
Always Afternoon (TV Miniseries)
1988 · Series · 60 min. · Australia
Direction David Stevens
Cast Lisa Harrow · Tushka Bergen · Marshall Napier · Taya Straton
Plot In 1915 Australia, German prisoners of war, as well as Aussies of German heritage, are kept in camps. This creates many animosities toward the authorities, but in this account the...
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The Sullivans (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 30 min. · Australia
Direction John Barningham · Simon Wincer · Graeme Arthur · Pino Amenta
Cast Lorraine Bayly · John Bowman · Norman Yemm · Marcella Burgoyne
Plot Follows the Sullivan family during the Second World War.
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Kennedy Women (TV)
2001 · Movie · 163 min. · United States
Direction Larry Shaw
Cast Jill Hennessy · Lauren Holly · Leslie Stefanson · Daniel Hugh Kelly
Plot They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths....
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A Thousand Skies (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Movie · 300 min. · Australia
Direction David Stevens
Cast John Walton · Andrew Clarke · Joss McWilliam · Jane Menelaus
Plot Charles Kingsford Smith, an adventurer, a crusader, a fighter, a lover. Against impossible odds, he went out to explore the sky, and soared higher than most.
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