Front Line (film)

For other films with a similar name, see Front line (disambiguation).

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

Front Line
Directed by	David Bradbury
Produced by	David Bradbury[1]
Release date	1979 (1979)
Running time	54:04 minutes [2]
Country	Australia
Language	English

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]

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.^[2]