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A video game, WarGames, was released for the ColecoVision in 1983 and ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 in 1984. It played similarly to the NORAD side of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game, where the United States had to be defended from a Soviet strike by placing bases and weapons at strategic points.
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Geschwader Fledermaus (Bat Squadron) (1957); Cerný prapor (The Black Battalion/Das schwarze Bataillon/Bataillon des Teufels) (1958); Kommando 52 (Commando 52) (1965); Der lachende Mann – Bekenntnisse eines Mörders (The Laughing Man – Confessions of a Killer) (1966)
The Last Valley is a 1971 film written and directed by James Clavell, an historical drama set during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). While war ravages in the southern principalities of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, a mercenary leader (Michael Caine) and a teacher (Omar Sharif) stumble upon a valley untouched by the war.
The plot is a mixture of comic and dramatic elements and concerns the reactions of a number of World War II veterans to the contemporary US Army. The title is derived from an American antiwar slogan from the hippie subculture during the Vietnam War era, popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes in her 1966 article for McCall's magazine titled "Suppose ...
The last consolation game in the NCAA tournament, held in 1981 between LSU and Virginia, was overshadowed by the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan earlier that day, and also by a postgame comment about Reagan by LSU star Rudy Macklin that haunted him for years.
Pages in category "Thirty Years' War in popular culture" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film [3] [4] directed and produced by Robert Redford.Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [5] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. [6]