Front Line (film)

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Front Line
Directed by David Bradbury
Produced byDavid Bradbury [1]
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
54:04 minutes [2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

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

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Summary

It follows the career of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. [3] [4]

Accolades

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1981. [5] [6]

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. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Documentary Winners: 1981 Oscars
  2. 1 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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