and Stalin as they attend the Tehran Conference in 1943 Escape from New York – 1981 science fiction film by John Carpenter, set at the end of World War III, in which the inmates of the prison island of Manhattan threaten their hostage, the mutilated U.S. President (Donald Pleasence), with death Blow Out – 1981 film directed by Brian De Palma about a sound engineer (John Travolta) who is earwitness to a political assassination The Amateur – 1981 film by Charles Jarrott about a CIA cryptographer (John Savage) who trains as an assassin after the terrorist death of his fiancée Gandhi – 1982 film by Richard Attenborough about Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) and his 1948 assassination by a Hindu extremist The Blue and the Gray – 1982 CBS miniseries by Andrew V. McLaglen includes the death of U.S. President Lincoln (Gregory Peck) in 1865 Missing – Palme d'Or-winning 1982 film by Costa-Gavras about the CIA-backed coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973, and the disappearance of a U.S. journalist, based on Charles Horman La passante du Sans-Souci – 1982 French film by Jacques Rouffio in which a humanitarian (Michel Piccoli) kills the ambassador of Paraguay, a former Nazi Harry's Game – 1982 ITV miniseries by Lawrence Gordon Clark in which a British soldier (Ray Lonnen) goes undercover in Belfast to track down the IRA assassin of a cabinet minister Under Fire – 1983 film by Roger Spottiswoode about the Somoza regime in 1979 Nicaragua, involving the assassination of a rebel leader For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story – 1983 television film by Michael Schulz about assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers Sadat – 1983 CBS miniseries by Richard Michaels about Egyptian President and Nobel laureate Anwar Sadat (Louis Gossett), assassinated along with other dignitaries in 1981 by Islamic extremists Karadjordjeva smrt (Карађорђева смрт) – 1983 Yugoslavian (Serbo-Croatian) television film by Đorđe Kadijević about the 1817 assassination of Karadjordje Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottomans, by agents of Prince Miloš Obrenović Reilly, Ace of Spies – 1983 ITV miniseries by Jim Goddard and Martin Campbell about a plot against Lenin involving British spy Sidney Reilly (Sam Neill), executed by the OGPU in 1925, and a model for Ian Fleming's spy James Bond Al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra (a.k.a. Clash of Loyalties) – 1983 Iraqi film by Mohamed Shukri Jameel about the murder of British military governor