Breaker Morant - Closing Argument

1980 Australian feature film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Boar war
• Breaker Morant
• Edward Woodward
• Australian films

[karenpato1]

what a bunch of hypocritical assholes that judging panel is.....political puppets.

[Karamojo7mm]

That's one of the finest, most honest acting I've ever seen.

[shredofmartyrs]

One of the best monologues in cinema.

[tom500k]

Ugly but indispensable facts we must act on to survive:

1) War is an atrocity inducing situation -- no exceptions.

2) Territorial Forces were the cannon foder of the UK.

3) The rest of NATO is the cannon foder of Obama & the PMs of the UK & France.

4) The cause of atrocities are the rotten barrels AKA "wars" built and expanded by superpowers NOT a "few" rotten apples [troops].

5) US = past super powers.

6) Is gambling human survival for empire expansion sane?

[overopensights]

@irishgodfatherchris Yes I do know that Chris; however I spent some time with the 3rd Australian Inf bn on attachment. I mentioned on one Anzac day, that Our losses were also great in comparison. I was politely told, "Yeah but we don't care about those." I don't knock the Aussie or NZ soldiers, I have so very much time for them all, and for the very unselfish way they have thrown all their weight behind our previous struggles. Both them and the Canadians are most uncomparable as allies.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@overopensights hang on you just said lesser ANZAC loss you are of course aware that whilst you lost more men we lost over 60,000 men now for a country with a population of less than 2 million at the time that was a huge total especially since every single one of those men unlike other allied nations were not conscripted, every soldier who served was a volunteer.

[overopensights]

@MelbourneMr Greeting Melbourne. You are absolutely right! I always thought it was 1907, but I think that must have been 'enigma variations' Thank you for putting me right in such a gracious manner, not usual on Youtube. yes indeed it is a lovely piece of music, my background is military and I remember well while our band played this on parades at our barracks in Germany, the Germans 'old and young' always stopped at the camp railings and listened to the very end.

[MelbourneMr]

@overopensights

Wiki says it was first played in October 1901. Morant and Handcock were executed in February 1902, so it's possible that it would have been played.

It's a brilliant tune isn't it?

[overopensights]

Just to say: the music though very appropriate 'Pomp and Circumstance' by Elgar played on this clip was not written until about ten years after this event.

[overopensights]

@PetroDola Sad of course that Australia and new Zealand lost so many men on Galipoli. But I have to tell you that the British casualties on the same strip of land was 31.000 men, the French 33.000 against a very much lesser but equaly tragic Ansac loss. Please don't knock UK, we lost nearly a million men in that war.