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Gallipoli
Directed by
Peter Weir
PG
1981
1h 52m
Drama
,
War
,
and more
7.4
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The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
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Cast of Gallipoli
Mel Gibson
Frank Dunne
Mark Lee
Archy Hamilton
Bill Kerr
Jack
Harold Hopkins
Les McCann
Charles Lathalu Yunipingu
Zac
Heath Harris
Stockman
Ron Graham
Wallace Hamilton
Gerda Nicolson
Rose Hamilton
Robert Grubb
Billy
Tim McKenzie
Barney
David Argue
Snowy
Brian Anderson
Railway Foreman
Reg Evans
Athletics Official 1
Jack Giddings
Athletics Official 2
Dane Peterson
Announcer
Paul Linkson
Recruiting Officer
Jenny Lovell
Waitress
Steve Dodd
Billy Snakeskin
Harold Baigent
Camel Driver
Robyn Galwey
Mary
Don Quin
Lionel
Phyllis Burford
Laura
Marjorie Irving
Gran
John Murphy
Frank's Father
Bill Hunter
Major Barton
Diane Chamberlain
Mrs. Barton
Peter Ford
Lt. Gray
Ian Govett
Army Doctor
Geoff Parry
Sgt. Sayers
Clive Bennington
English Officer 1
Giles Holland-Martin
English Officer 2
Moshe Kedem
Egyptian Shopkeeper
John Morris
Col. Robinson
Don Barker
N.C.O. at Ball
Kiwi White
Soldier on Beach
Paul Sonkkila
Sniper
Peter Lawless
Observer
Leslie Dayman
Artillery Officer
Saltbush Baldock
Sentry
Stan Green
Sgt. Major
Max Wearing
Col. White
Graham Dow
General Gardner
Peter R. House
Radio Officer
Peter Weir
Director / Writer
Ernest Raymond
Writer
David Williamson
Writer
Patricia Lovell
Producer
Robert Stigwood
Producer
Gallipoli Ratings & Reviews
Charles London
May 3, 2025
The movie grabs you from the opening titles set to a dramatic score of Adagio in G minor. Then the fabulous wide-screen cinematography becomes immediately evident in the opening scene, set in the year 1915. We go from Western Australia, to Egypt, and then to Turkey in this story of fictional characters against the backdrop of true events. Events that Australians will never forget. This is a well-done production on all levels. A moving and poignant story of idealistic young men and their loss of innocence at the hands of war and it's sobering consequences.
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
Gallipoli is a predictable war movie filled with all the gung-ho cliches of the genre -- and I loved it.
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
Although we've seen this story before, it is told exceptionally well here.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Classy and lifeless.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
An anti-war movie at heart, but it's also flush with patriotic pride.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Set in 1915, Weir's excellent anti-war film centers on the disastrous battle of Gallipoli, featuring an excellent performance by Mel Gibson as a young fleet-footed soldier
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... deflated the romantic notions of glory under fire to show the reality of Gallipoli and mourn the men who gave up their lives for a war they had no stake in.
Variety
Variety Staff
Against a backdrop broader than his previous outings, Weir has fashioned what is virtually an intimate epic.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.
TV Guide
Both a fitting testimony to the courage of the thousands of Australians and New Zealanders who died fighting for their country and one of the most powerful cinematic examinations of the futility and tragic cost of war.
Mediasharx
Caffeinated Clint
One of the best war films ever made....a triumph for the AFI
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Weir goes so far in humanizing Archy and Frank before they head off to the dehumanizing crucible of combat that he commits the greatest sin of all... he's boring
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Gallipoli is a powerful World War I drama about some Australian soldiers fighting in Turkey that depicts the horror and tragedy of war.
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
A portrait of WWI that's both personal and epic.
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