Screenplay: Peter Weir

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Russell Crowe · Paul Bettany · James D'Arcy · Max Pirkis

Plot During the Napoleonic Wars, Lucky Jack Aubrey captains the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise. When the ship is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy, it is badly damaged and much...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Mel Gibson · Sigourney Weaver · Linda Hunt · Michael Murphy

Plot Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, Australian reporter Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) is covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Olivia Hamnett · David Gulpilil · Frederick Parslow

Plot A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Jim Sturgess · Ed Harris · Colin Farrell · Saoirse Ronan

Plot A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940.

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Judy Morris · Ivar Kants · Robert Coleby · Candy Raymond

Plot In Adelaide, the wife of Dr. Brian Cowper, Jill Cowper, is developing her thesis at home to finish her Master in Anthropology. When the plumber Max unexpectedly arrives for a...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Andie MacDowell · Bebe Neuwirth · Gregg Edelman

Plot With the help of his lawyer, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast John Meillon · Terry Camilleri · Kevin Miles · Rick Scully

Plot Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The brother is...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Richard Meale

Plot This short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale's homage to the young French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Meale composed a music piece for woodwind, percussion and strings which he titled "Incredible...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Geoff Malone · Grahame Bond · Kate Fitzpatrick · Barry Donnelly

Plot Written and directed by Peter Weir, this is the very rarely seen debut of the australian director, a 50 minute B&W black comedy in 1971 about a group of guests...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Wendy Saddington & Teardrop · Mic Conway · Jim Conway · Stephen Cooney

Plot An 11 minute documentary short for Film Australia. Offers a sample of three trends in recent Australian pop music: the theatrical act of Wendy Saddington and Teardrop; the jug music...

Direction Maurice Murphy · Bill Munro

Cast Grahame Bond · John Meillon · Graham Rouse · Walter Sullivan

Plot A series of 1/2 hour comedies shown as possible pilots to new series. Three of them were successful; Our Man in Canberra which had three episodes made but never shown...

Direction Peter Weir

Direction Maurice Murphy · Nick Parsons

Cast Grahame Bond · Rory O'Donoghue · Sandra McGregor · Garry McDonald

Plot A large, violent, masculine, mustached, boxing glove-wearing, motorcycle riding woman and her troupe of other off-beat characters.

Direction Brian Hannant · Oliver Howes · Peter Weir

Cast Matthew Burton · Grahame Bond · Peter Colville · Georgina West

Plot Three stories, each presenting a young Australian at a moment of decision about their future.

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Peter Weir · Ron Whittle · Frank Scambray · Stephen Jurd

Plot Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the day.