Watch on Soap2day. Frontline is a 1980 Australian documentary film directed by David Bradbury. It follows the career of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [Note: as shown in the movie poster, the title may be "Frontline", not "Front Line".]