Gallipoli

Gallipoli

1981. Australia. Directed by Peter Weir. With Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Robert Grubb. Director Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) pours genuine feeling into this retelling of his fellow Australians’ tragic fate during the Allies’ failed 1915 attempt to invade Turkey and take the Dardanelles. 110 min.