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The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was elected president of Iran with 16,007,972 votes out of 16,846,996 cast. Education minister Ali-Akbar Parvaresh placed second. [6]U.S. president Ronald Reagan announced his plans to resurrect the B-1 bomber program that had been scrapped by President Carter, with 100 of the planes to be built by 1987, and another plan to deploy 100 MX missiles.
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.
Scene from The Ten Commandments movie. Just in time for Easter! Director Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments, which celebrates its 68th anniversary in 2024, will air just before Easter ...
Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, a 26-part half-hour Canadian television documentary about the Vietnam War, was produced in 1980 by Michael Maclear. The series aired in Canada on CBC Television , in the United States on NBC , and the United Kingdom on Channel 4 .
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland. Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, W. Germany. Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Faster, Faster (Deprisa, deprisa / Vivre vite), directed by Carlos Saura, Spain ...
The decision to focus on three primary characters from America’s radio era narrows the documentary to a respectable and digestible 90 minutes. Plus, it is full of fun, fuzzy broadcast sounds ...
The Ten Commandments was the highest-grossing film of 1956, and the second most successful film of the decade. By April 1957, the film had earned an unprecedented $10 million from engagements at just eighty theaters, averaging about $1 million per week, with more than seven million people paying to watch it. [ 83 ]
The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization.