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The Anderson Platoon (French: La Section Anderson, released in 1966 in Europe, 1967 in the US) is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War, named after the leader of the platoon - Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson - with which Schoendeorffer was embedded. Two decades later, a sequel was released as Reminiscence.
The Anderson Platoon: Directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer. With Joseph B. Anderson, Stuart Whitman. The director, a French veteran of the Indochina war (La 317e Section), returned to follow a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam in 1966.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 1967-02-03
The Anderson Platoon - Full Cast & Crew. Director Pierre Schoendorffer's harrowing, Oscar-winning documentary follows Lt. Joseph Anderson, a black West Point graduate, and his unit, on combat duty ...
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Stuart Whitman
The Anderson Platoon is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War, named after the leader of the platoon - Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson - with which Schoendeorffer was embedded. Two decades later, a sequel was released as Reminiscence.
Watchlist. NEW. A quietly austere documentary from Peter Schoendorffer, a veteran of the First Indochina War between France and Vietnam, returns the filmmaker to Vietnam in 1966, where he and a ...
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- Documentary
- Peter Schoendorffer
65 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1968. Roger Ebert. May 7, 1968. 2 min read. By coincidence, I saw Eugene Jones’ “A Face of War” at a screening the day before I went to review “The Anderson Platoon.”. Both films use cinema verite to examine the rifleman in Vietnam, but the Jones film is incomparably more true and compelling than “The ...
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The director, a French veteran of the Indochina war (La 317e Section), returned to follow a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam in 1966. The documentary discusses the background and fate of the soldiers and emphasizes how much American culture pervades the soldiers' behaviors in the midst of jungle life and fighting. — <xaviermartin@hotmail.com>
