Pierre Schoendoerffer
Pierre Schoendoerffer (5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. In... Read full bio →
Diên Biên Phú
An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh...
Le Crabe-Tambour
Sur un escorteur chargé d'escorter des chalutiers en direction de Terre-Neuve, un commandant et deux autres membres d'équipage se souviennent du Crabe-Tambour, un personnage qu'ils ont côtoyé et qui a participé aux guerres d'Indochine et d'Algérie.
La section Anderson
A documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War.
La 317ème section
In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked.