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

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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Not rated