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Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series)Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)
Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet
Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
Private BenjaminPrivate Benjamin (1980)
Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante
Well–fashioned vehicle for Hawn's natural comic talents, she here plays a swanky socialite who joins the army on the spur of the…
Sea Wolves, TheSea Wolves, The (1980)
Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Spoils of War, The (TV Series)Spoils of War, The (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. Alan Hunter, William Lucas, Emily Moore
British drama series examining the effects of World War II on two families.
To Serve Them All My Days (TV Series)To Serve Them All My Days (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. John Duttine
A shell–shocked WWI vet retreats to a teaching post in Devon, England, where he inspires students through unconventional and empowering means.…
19411941 (1979)
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune
The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
All Quiet on the Western Front  All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence
While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now (1979) Aro Favourite
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
Apocalypse Now ReduxApocalypse Now Redux (1979) Aro Favourite
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Twenty years after its release, dir. Coppola’s expressionist epic of the Vietnam War, is ‘healed’ (redux in Latin) by the re–inclusion of…
Breaker MorantBreaker Morant (1979) Aro Favourite
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown
An unjust court–martial in the Boer War provides much tension in one of the great Oz dramas.

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