Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World
( dir. Peter Weir
)
United States of America (USA)
:
Samuel Goldwyn Company
,
2003
Z1900052
2003
single work
film/TV
war literature
historical fiction
During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Jack Aubrey, in command of HMS Surprise, purses the heavier and more powerfully armed French privateer Acheron across the Pacific Ocean and around the Galapagos Islands, under orders to 'sink, burn, or take her as a prize'. But his friend, ship's doctor Stephen Maturin, worries that Aubrey is motivated more by pride than by duty.
