Front Line (film)

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.

Accolades
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1981.

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.