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 miniseries 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

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