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 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 1979 the documentary Rampton: The Secret Hospital, making public the treatment of patients at the Nottinghamshire mental care facility Rampton Hospital, led to a Government investigation-it also won an international Emmy award for the station.

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.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

* Burns, Dan E., " Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie: Beginning of the End ,", in Literature / Film Quarterly, 1979

* Last Embrace ( 1979 )

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

* The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole by Roland Huntford, 1979.

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

Between The Last Wave and his next feature, Weir wrote and directed the offbeat low-budget telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ).

Alcatraz Island appears often in popular culture, including the films The Book of Eli ( 2010 ), X-Men: The Last Stand ( 2006 ), Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 ), The Rock ( 1996 ), Murder in the First ( 1995 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), and J. J. Abrams ' 2012 television series Alcatraz.

Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1979 was released in June 2009.

The Class of 1979, the last all-male class, went so far as to unofficially label themselves " LCWB ," or " Last Class With Balls " an abbreviation that appeared on many of their class-specific items and still appears at reunions, sporting events and other Academy alumni functions.

* Class War Comix-New Times ( Epic, 1974 & Last Gasp, 1979 )

* The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, 1979

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

Nolte sang with the group at several of their early performances, but by the Spring of 1979 The Last were becoming more active and he left the Descendents.

*" I Had Too Much To Dream ( Last Night )" / " Luvin " ( Radar ADA 16 – picture sleeve reissue ) 1979 UK

* A Last Cry for Help ( 1979 )

* Last Night Of A Pub Rock Band LP ( Holland ) ( 1979 ) Dynamite-BMLP 001 ( bootleg )

Mary Stewart, in " The Last Enchantment " ( 1979 ) radically recasts the story of Merlin and Niniane, completely removing the aspect of malicious seduction and treachery dominant in the traditional version.

Following 1976, Wynette's popularity slightly slowed, however, she continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade, with such hits as " Let's Get Together ( One Last Time ), " One of a Kind " ( both 1977 ), " Womanhood " ( 1978 ) " No One Else in this World " and " They Call It Makin ' Love " ( both 1979 ).

* 1979: Last tram was manufactured.