Breaker Morant Review

South Africa, Morant served in the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC), an irregular unit tasked with fighting Boer guerrillas.

The 1980 film Breaker Morant , directed by , is considered a cornerstone of Australian cinema. Breaker Morant

: Despite their defense that they were following "unwritten orders" from Lord Kitchener to take no prisoners, Morant and Handcock were executed by a firing squad on February 27, 1902. South Africa, Morant served in the Bushveldt Carbineers

Australia in 1883. He reinvented himself as "Harry Harbord Morant," gaining fame as a charismatic horse-breaker, drover, and poet known as "The Breaker". : During the Second Boer War in Breaker Morant

: In 1901, Morant, along with Lieutenants Peter Handcock and George Witton, was accused of executing 12 Boer prisoners and a German missionary.