Killing Joke Eighties (1984, dir. Anthony Van Den Ende)

The official 1984 music video to Eighties was directed by Anthony Van Den Ende, and shows the band performing the song while frontman Jaz Coleman stands in front of a microphone stand which has the U. S. flag draped over it. Behind him the flag of the Soviet Union can be seen. Their performance is intercut with stock footage of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev (with the footage deliberately skipping), Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul II, Ruhollah Khomeini, Konstantin Chernenko and John DeLorean. Other footage shows a space shuttle being launched, nuclear bomb explosion, a female bodybuilding contest, a group of punks at a concert in Hammersmith, book burnings, Beatles albums being burned after the bigger than Jesus comment and a dog wedding.