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Wave, TheWave, The (1981) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch
A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness YearsWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers
8–part drama series about the future British Prime Minister, during his years in political exile in the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Hardy plays…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series)Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar
This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
Beulah Land (TV Mini-series)Beulah Land (TV Mini-series) (1980)
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert
There are plenty of well–known faces in the support cast of this old–fashioned, three–part mini–series dramatizing the lives…
Flickers (TV Series)Flickers (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Frances de la Tour, Sheila Reid
An amiable Cockney rogue seeking investors in the silent–film industry finds that building a business out of make believe isn't as easy as he…
Juliet Bravo (TV Series)Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series)Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series) (1980)
Dir. John Gauci
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill
Australian mini–series based on the novel by Martin Boyd, and depicting the span of generations of a family of English emigrees in the late…
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…
Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series)Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series) (1980)
Feat. Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Moray Watson
Fay Weldon adaptation of the Jane Austen perennial in which the arrival of a wealthy gentleman sends her marriage–minded mother into a frenzy,…
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.

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