anarchist Rogue Male – 1976 BBC television film by Clive Donner, starring Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim, based on Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel, Rogue Male. The Eagle Has Landed – 1976 film by John Sturges about a German plot, initially, to capture Winston Churchill Taxi Driver – Palme d'Or-winning 1976 film by Martin Scorsese in which a confused loner (Robert De Niro) tries to assassinate a U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Helter Skelter – 1976 television film by Tom Gries, starring Steve Railsback, about the Charles Manson Family murders, the Family including Squeaky Fromme, would-be 1975 assassin of President Ford The Next Man – 1976 film by Richard C. Sarafian in which a Saudi minister (Sean Connery) who wants peace with Israel faces a series of assassination attempts from terrorists Target of an Assassin (a.k.a. Fatal Assassin) – 1976 film by Peter Collinson in which a South African male nurse (Anthony Quinn) kidnaps the hospitalized target of a failed assassination, a visiting African President Śmierć prezydenta (Death of a President) – 1977 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz about the 1922 assassination of Polish President Gabriel Narutowicz (Zdzisław Mrożewski) The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish – 1977 television film by Robert E. Collins about the 1935 assassination of Louisiana governor Huey Long (Edward Asner) The Lincoln Conspiracy – 1977 television film by James L. Conway that details a presumed conspiracy of Radical Republicans, led by Secretary of War Stanton (Robert Middleton), to assassinate President Lincoln (John Anderson) in 1865 The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald – 1977 TV miniseries by Gordon Davidson and David Greene in which the accused assassin (John Pleshette) of U.S. President Kennedy is placed on trial in Texas before his own assassination by Jack Ruby Black Sunday – 1977 film by John Frankenheimer about a terrorist plot to detonate a blimp bomb over the Super Bowl football game with the U.S. President in attendance The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It – 1977 comedy by Joseph McGrath which involves "Sherlock Holmes" (John Cleese) in the murders of the U.S. Secretary of State and various police officials The Spy Who Loved Me – 1977 James Bond film by Lewis Gilbert that features the debut of a steel-toothed assassin named Jaws King – 1978 NBC miniseries by Abby Mann depicts the 1965 murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, as well as the