New wave filmmakers Susumu Hani and Shōhei Imamura retreated to documentary work, though Imamura made a dramatic return to feature filmmaking with Vengeance Is Mine ( 1979 ).

The 1979 documentary The Last of the Blue Devils portrays this era in interviews and performances by jazz notables from KC.

The scenes of Air Force personnel aboard the Airborne Command Post receiving news of the incoming attack are footage of actual military personnel during a drill and had been aired several years earlier in a 1979 PBS documentary, First Strike.

In 1979, Vangelis composed the score for another animal documentary by Frédéric Rossif, Opéra sauvage.

No Maps on My Taps, the Emmy award winning PBS documentary of 1979, helped begin the recent revival of tap dance.

* 1979 NFB documentary about Bill Reid

* Greensboro Child, documentary about the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the shadow it cast on the survivors.

" In the pivotal documentary movie Salsa: Latin Pop Music in Cities ( 1979 ), the history of salsa is explained as a mixing of African, Caribbean, and New York cultures and musics, with no mention of Cuba.

In 1979, Pilger and two colleagues with whom he collaborated for many years, documentary film-maker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper, entered Cambodia in the wake of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime.

* Morte no Tejo ( 1979 ) ( documentary )

Always politically active, Simon and James Taylor were part of the concerts which later became a documentary and concert film, No Nukes ( 1980 ) as well as a live album of the same name ( 1979 ).

In 1996, a documentary was released entitled The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon ( also known as Rockin ' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock ), in which the surviving members of the Charlatans ( Ferguson died in 1979 from complications from diabetes ) were interviewed about their heady days at the Red Dog.

* John Pilger, an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker, collaborated with filmmaker David Munro and photographer Eric Piper on the impact of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian people in a report for the British tabloid Daily Mirror and the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia ( 1979 ) for Associated Television.

* That's Carry On ( 1979 ) ( documentary )

* With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, a 1979 documentary film

* The 1979 film, The Last of the Blue Devils, a documentary of Kansas City jazz.

* Nails ( film ), a 1979 documentary film

The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980.

* Gung Ho-Rewi Alley of China-a 1979 full length documentary about Rewi Alley on NZ On Screen.

Aghdashloo narrated a documentary called Iranium which documents the development of Iran's nuclear threat, beginning with the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the ideology installed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini ; tracks Iran's use of terror as a tool of policy, beginning with the 444 day seizure of the U. S. Embassy in Tehran, through Iran's insurgent actions in Iraq and Afghanistan ; details the brutal nature of the Iranian regime to its own citizens, and the Iranian people's desire to rejoin the international community ; and outlines the various scenarios the greater Middle East and the Western world may face should Iran cross the nuclear threshold.

In Steelmill / Stahlwerk, a 1979 documentary made in collaboration with Clara Weyergraf, Serra explores the physical construction of an art piece and at the same time examines the lives of the steelmill.

In 1979, she was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada short documentary film My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe, directed by Ian Rankin, Stephan Steinhouse and Marc F. Voizard.

A documentary film made by Dušan Vukotić in 1979 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the city plays much on that theme, and shows pictures of happy bathers on the Korana's Fogin beach ( Foginovo kupalište ) in the city centre.

On 22 May 1979, Yorkshire Television broadcast an exposé programme titled " Rampton, The Secret Hospital ", showing the routinely severe mistreatment of Rampton patients by staff.

Devo also appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in 1979, performing " Blockhead ", " Secret Agent Man ", and " Mongoloid ".

* Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II ( New York: Viking, 1979 )

Operation Sunrise: The Secret Surrender ( New York: Basic Books, 1979 )

Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause came in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.

* 1979 Secret Detective Investigation-Net in Big Edo

At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who for Townshend's anthemic Won't Get Fooled Again for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball.

* 1979 The Secret Policeman's Ball ( Island )

Secret Affair had become so closely linked to the emerging mod revival that in March 1979 Cairns wrote what would become the youth movement's main anthem, " Time For Action ".

The first two albums, Glory Boys ( December 1979 ) and Behind Closed Doors ( September 1980 ), with its more complex orchestrated arrangements, proved successful and in its first year Secret Affair regularly appeared on the BBC Television show Top Of The Pops and was a cover star of many UK music magazines, including New Musical Express, Sounds and Smash Hits.

The first of these was the June 1979 appearances by Pete Townshend at The Secret Policeman's Ball, a series of benefit shows in London for human rights organization Amnesty International at which the usually electric guitar-wielding Townshend was persuaded by benefit producer Martin Lewis to perform his hits " Pinball Wizard " and " Won't Get Fooled Again " on acoustic guitar.

The 1982 live album of these performances and the US version of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball movie ( which incorporated a " flashback " of Townshend's 1979 performances ) both became very successful and were widely seen and heard in the USA.

In 1979, Connolly was invited by producer Martin Lewis to join the cast of The Secret Policeman's Ball, the third in the series of the Secret Policeman's Ball fundraising shows for Amnesty International.

His other movie credits include The Young Savages ( 1961 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), The Scalphunters ( 1968 ), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ), Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ), Inside Out ( 1975 ), and Escape to Athena ( 1979 ).

Among those films were The Secret of Santa Vittoria ( 1968 ), R. P. M. ( 1970 ), Bless the Beasts and Children ( 1971 ), Oklahoma Crude ( 1973 ), The Domino Principle ( 1977 ) and The Runner Stumbles ( 1979 ).

*" Baader-Meinhof " / " Sex in Secret " on A Factory Sample ( January 1979 )

In 1979, The Progressive won national attention for its article by Howard Morland, " The H-bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it ", which the U. S. government suppressed for six months because it contained classified information.

The Melodian was first used by Stevie Wonder in the " Journey through the Secret Life of Plants " ( 1979 ).

Medved then wrote The Shadow Presidents: The Secret History of the Chief Executives and Their Top Aides ( 1979 ), a study of the leading White House assistants since the establishment of the presidential staff in 1857.

( A one-hour TV special drawn from the performances aired on Britain's ITV network by London Weekend Television in December 1979 to coincide with the release of the Secret Policeman's Ball record album on Island Records, produced by Lewis, of the comedy performances.

The iconic Secret Policeman's cartoon character used to promote the show, film and record albums made its first appearance in 1979.

Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein, founders / owners of the new independent distribution company Miramax Films had previously acquired the US rights to the film of the 1979 show The Secret Policeman's Ball and they subsequently acquired the rights to its successor The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

The US film ( though drawn from the UK films of both the 1979 and 1981 shows ) used as its title The Secret Policeman's Other Ball – a title that by May 1982 had some resonance in the US marketplace because of the success of the music soundtrack album and media coverage of the film festival screenings.