Sam Worthington Shines in Forgotten Miniseries Deadline Gallipoli

Sam Worthington is still chiefly associated with the Avatar series, but one of his most unheralded turns comes in the Australian miniseries Deadline Gallipoli, which he executive-produced and which is available to stream on The Roku Channel. Directed by Michael Rymer, the series follows four journalists — Philip Schuler (Worthington), Charles Bean (Joel Jackson), Keith Murdoch (Ewen Leslie) and Ellis Ashmead (Hugh Dancy) — who arrive at Gallipoli with Allied troops in 1915 during the campaign against the Ottoman Empire.

The story frames the conflict from a reporter’s perspective, showing how men obliged to file pro-Allied copy are driven by conscience to expose mismanagement. The drama avoids being a didactic plea for the Fourth Estate, instead leaning into political-thriller elements provided by its wartime setting.

Visual flourishes and grounded portraits of routine and extreme reporting give the series a cinematic feel; early, quieter episodes make the subsequent battlefield shocks more affecting.

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