Front Line (film)
{{short description|1979 film}}
{{For|other films with a similar name|Front line (disambiguation)}}
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| director = David Bradbury
| producer = David Bradbury[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUg1J1owor8 Documentary Winners: 1981 Oscars]
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| released = {{Film date|1979}}
| runtime = 54:04 minutes {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/76070--frontline/ |title=Frontline |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=6 August 2023 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}
| country = Australia
| language = English
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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.[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/accessing-records-at-the-memorial/findingaids/photo/bradbury Guide to David Bradbury's 'Frontline', Vietnam 1962 - 1972|Australian War Memorial][https://www.acmi.net.au/works/76070--frontline/ ACMI]
Accolades
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1981.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |title=The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=7 October 2011|work=oscars.org}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/157028/Front-Line/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521105204/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/157028/Front-Line/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 May 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2011 |title=NY Times: Front Line |accessdate=16 November 2008}}
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
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0080763|title=Front Line}}
- [https://frontlinefilms.com.au/frontline/ Front Line] at Frontline Films
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfF8vBMd64 Excerpt]
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Category:Films directed by David Bradbury
Category:Australian documentary films
Category:1979 documentary films
Category:1970s English-language films
Category:English-language documentary films