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1971 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.
Voyage of the Damned (1976) – war drama film inspired by actual events concerning the fate of the ocean liner St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939 [303] W. C. Fields and Me (1976) – biographical drama film based on a memoir by Carlotta Monti, mistress of actor W. C. Fields during the last 14 years of his life [304]
War films typically tells the story of a small group of isolated individuals who – one by one – get killed (literally or metaphorically) by an outside force until there is a final fight to the death; the idea of the protagonists facing death is a central expectation in a war drama film. In a war film even though the enemy may out-number, or ...
The Salamander (1971 film) The Sandpit Generals; Sansar (1971 film) Say Lo Yar Say; A Season in Hell (1971 film) Secrets (1971 film) The Seven Minutes (film) Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead; Silence (1971 film) Sin (1971 film) The Ski Bum (film) The Snow Goose (film) Socrates (1971 film) Some of My Best Friends Are... Sometimes a Great ...
The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971, lowering the voting age for all federal and state elections from 21 years to 18 years. The primary impetus for this change was the fact that young men were being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War before they were old enough to vote.
John J. Pershing College of Beatrice, Nebraska abruptly informed its students that the college was closing permanently at noon, five days before the second semester of the 1970–1971 school year was to start. The college had been founded in 1966 with the mission of providing a "second chance for students in academic trouble elsewhere" but had ...
Kofi Awoonor – This Earth, My Brother; Denys Val Baker – The Face in the Mirror; Nanni Balestrini – Vogliamo tutto (We Want Everything) John Bingham – Vulture in the Sun; William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist; Richard Brautigan – Revenge of the Lawn; Charles Bukowski – Post Office; Albert Camus (died 1960) – A Happy Death (La Mort ...
A copy of the Draft of Project 571. Project 571 (Chinese: 五七一 工程; pinyin: Wǔqīyī gōngchéng) was the code name given to an alleged plot to execute a coup d'état against Chairman Mao Zedong in 1971 by the supporters of Lin Biao, then Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.