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Frontline

Year of completion: 1980
Content type: Documentary
Format: Short
Genre: History
Duration: 53 minutes
Production Status: Completed

FRONTLINE is a film about the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of Australian news cameraman, Neil Davis, who spent 11 years in the combat zone shooting unique film seen on millions of television screens around the world. He was the only cameraman to cover the fall of Saigon. FRONTLINE is an extraordinary record of Davis' involvement in the conflict, and gives a lucid impression of what it was like to be there on the frontline. It combines extensive use of Davis' own footage, archival film and interviews with Davis discussing the war, the role of the war correspondent and his own ethics.

Completion Year: 1980
Genres: History
Format: Short
Production Status: Completed

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1981 — Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1981 — Athens International Film Festival

1980 — Chicago International Film Festival

1980 — International Film and TV Festival of New York

1980 — Australian Film Institute

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1981 — Athens International Film Festival

1980 — Chicago International Film Festival

1980 — International Film and TV Festival of New York

1980 — Nyon Film Fest

1986 — International Festival of Film, Television and Video of Rio de Janeiro

1980 — Australian Film Institute

1980 — Berlin International Film Festival

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