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Front Line
Directed byDavid Bradbury
Produced byDavid Bradbury
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time54:04 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Front Line is a 1979 Australian documentary film directed by David Bradbury.

Summary

It follows the career of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Accolades

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1981.

In popular culture

The oral consumption of chrome spray paint before combat in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was inspired by a line in the documentary: soldiers putting the budda charms of their necklaces into their mouths before combat to protect them or to guide them in reincarnation.

References

  1. Documentary Winners: 1981 Oscars
  2. ^ Australian Centre for the Moving Image. "Frontline". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  3. Guide to David Bradbury's 'Frontline', Vietnam 1962 - 1972|Australian War Memorial
  4. ACMI
  5. "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  6. "NY Times: Front Line". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2008.

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