The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

*The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy*
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Written by	David Phillips
Directed by	Chris Thomson
Starring	Jack Thompson; Brad Davis
Theme music composer	Martin Armiger
Country of origin	Australia; New Zealand
Original language	English
No. of episodes	2 x 2 hours
Production
Producer	Robert J Loader
Production companies	7 Network; Golden Dolphin
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	9 October 1988

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy is a 1988 Australian-New Zealand mini series based on the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.^[1] It was written by David Phillips, and directed by Chris Thomson, and stars Jack Thompson, Brad Davis and Germain Houde.

Plot[edit]

From 1978 to 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, active in supporting a number of anti-whaling, anti-seal hunting, anti-nuclear testing and anti-nuclear waste dumping campaigns, during that period. In 1985 it was at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. It was sunk by a bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.

^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p225