"Public Enemy Number One has special value as a portrait of a
maverick. The film should really be called Public Servant Number
One. Wilfred Burchett shows great moral courage resisting
pressures to conform. Journalism needs such independent
spirits." Gordon Hitchens, film journalist Chris Statuette,
Columbus Film Festival, 1981 Flaherty Film Seminar, 1981
Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1981 Golden Gate Award,
San Francisco Film Festival, 1981 Blue Ribbon, American Film
Festival, 1981 Second Place, Baltimore International Film
Festival, 1981 Best Film, Sydney Film Festival, 1981 Berlin Film
Festival, 1981 For most of his working life, controversial
Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett chose to report from the
"other side". His unorthodox views and activities caused him to
be labelled a traitor by many. Burchett was the first Western
journalist to report on the devastating after effects of the
atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He believed that the West was
wrong to intervene in Korea. During the Vietn