Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen. Sheen's character is sent to assassinate Brando's. Winter Kills – 1979 film adapted from the novel by Richard Condon. 1980s 1980–1984 Jean Jaurès: vie et mort d'un socialiste – 1980 French television film by Ange Casta about the assassination of Socialist leader and pacifist Jean Jaurès in 1914 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones – 1980 television film by William A. Graham about the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan by cult leader Jim Jones prior to the mass suicide in 1978 Judita – 1980 Yugoslavian (Croatian) television film by Marin Carić on the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Biblical heroine Judith (Dubravka Miletić), based on the Book of Judith and the 1521 Croatian nationalist epic poem by Marko Marulić The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd – 1980 television film by Paul Wendkos about the imprisonment of Dr. Samuel Mudd (Dennis Weaver), following the Lincoln assassination in 1865 The Blood of Hussain – 1980 Pakistani (Urdu) film by Jamil Dehlavi about the martyrdom of Imam Hussain in A.D. 680 (61 A.H.) Tom Horn – 1980 Western by William Wiard about Tom Horn (Steve McQueen), a gun for hire in 1890s Wyoming The Dogs of War – 1980 film by John Irvin in which a mercenary (Christopher Walken) plans to kill a fictional African dictator in the course of a coup d'état The Kidnapping of the President – 1980 film by George Mendeluk in which the U.S. President (Hal Holbrook) is kidnapped by a South American terrorist and sealed in an armoured car wired to explode Cuba Crossing (a.k.a. Assignment: Kill Castro) – 1980 film by Chuck Workman involving a plot against Fidel Castro Death of a Prophet – 1981 film by Woodie King Jr. about the 1965 assassination of black nationalist Malcolm X (Morgan Freeman) Die Gerechten – 1981 West German television film by Frank Guthke about the assassin (Jan Niklas) of Russian Grand Duke Sergei in 1905, based on the play Les Justes by Nobel laureate Albert Camus – also, earlier West German versions in 1964 with Christoph Bantzer, and 1959 with Pinkas Braun Rise and Fall of Idi Amin – 1981 film by Sharad Patel in which Ugandan President Idi Amin (Joseph Olita) eliminates those he dislikes Teheran 43 – 1981 Franco-Soviet film by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov about a German plot to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt