Peter Weir

After the death of his brother, drifter Arthur Waldo visits the rural Australian town of Paris, but soon realises the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret.

Three-time Golden Globe winner Richard Chamberlain is a lawyer who must defend a group of Indigenous men in a murder case in this mystery drama helmed and co-written by Peter Weir (The Truman Show).

A war drama inspired by the true story of a group of prisoners who escaped from a Siberian gulag camp during World War II and walked 4000 miles overland to freedom in India. Directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show) and starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris.

An American inventor tries to build a utopian community in the jungle of Belize.

Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany lead this Oscar-winning high seas period drama set during the Napoleonic war, directed by Peter Weir (Witness).

Written by New Zealander Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) and directed by Australian Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society), The Truman Show is an American science fiction comedy-drama starring Jim Carrey. Winner of Best Actor (Carrey) at the 1999 Golden Globes and Best Screenplay (Niccol) at the 1999 BAFTAs.

An Australian reporter assigned to Jakarta, Indonesia, during the summer of 1965, struggles to uncover the dangerous truth about the toppling government of the Dictator Sukarno.

Robin Williams leads this 1989 Oscar-winning classroom drama as an English teacher of a preppy, stiff-upper-lip school who educates his students on the value of going against the social grain and to “seize the day”. Co-stars Ethan Hawke.

Peter Weir's classic mystery, the story of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic to Hanging Rock in central Victora, Australia, on St Valentine's Day in 1900. Their unexplained vanishing haunts the local community.

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected.

Mel Gibson leads this 1981 historical Australian drama about the men who signed up with the ANZACs in World War I. From multi-Oscar nominated director Peter Weir, who would go on to direct Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.