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The Anderson Platoon

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The Anderson Platoon (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. [1]

43 relations: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, BBC, Berlin Wall, CBS, Detachment (military), Embedded journalism, English language, First Indochina War, France, France-Soir, French language, French Union, G.I. (military), Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Joseph B. Anderson, List of International Emmy Award winners, M60 machine gun, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, Pay-per-view, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Platoon (film), Prix Italia, Random House, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Sender Freies Berlin, South Vietnam, Stuart Whitman, The 317th Platoon, Time (magazine), United States Army, United States Military Academy, VHS, Việt Minh, Video on demand, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Wallace Terry, West Germany, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 1st Cavalry Division (United States).

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Battle of Dien Bien Phu

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Detachment (military)

A detachment (from the French détachement) is a military unit.

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Embedded journalism

Embedded journalism refers to news reporters being attached to military units involved in armed conflicts.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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First Indochina War

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946, and lasted until 20 July 1954.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France-Soir

France Soir (France Evening) was a French daily newspaper that prospered during the 1950s and 1960s, reaching a circulation of 1.5 million in the 1950s.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Union

The French Union was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" (Empire Français).

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G.I. (military)

G.I. is an acronym used to describe the soldiers of the United States Army and airmen of the United States Army Air Forces and also for general items of their equipment.

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Institut national de l'audiovisuel

The Institut national de l'audiovisuel (or INA, French for National Audiovisual Institute) is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives.

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Joseph B. Anderson

Joseph B. Anderson, Jr. (born 1943) is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of TAG Holdings, LLC.

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List of International Emmy Award winners

This is a list of International Emmy Award winners.

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M60 machine gun

The M60, officially the United States Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO or modified 7.62×54mmR cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links.

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Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; Northern German Broadcasting) is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg.

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Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.

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Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television service by which a subscriber of a television service provider can purchase events to view via private telecast.

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Pierre Schoendoerffer

Pierre Schoendoerffer (Pierre Schœndœrffer; 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.

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Platoon (film)

Platoon is a 1986 American anti-war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen.

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Prix Italia

The Prix Italia is an international Italian television, radio-broadcasting and website award.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multi-purpose convention center at 1855 Main Street in Santa Monica, California, owned by the City of Santa Monica.

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Sender Freies Berlin

Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) was the ARD public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 1990 and for Berlin as a whole from German reunification until 30 April 2003.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, Việt Nam Cộng Hòa), was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 and comprised the southern half of what is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Stuart Whitman

Stuart Maxwell Whitman (born February 1, 1928) is an American actor.

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The 317th Platoon

The 317th Platoon (La 317ème section) is a 1965 French war film set during the First Indochina War (1946–54) written and directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, Army West Point, The Academy or simply The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York, in Orange County.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Việt Minh

Việt Minh (abbreviated from Việt Nam độc lập đồng minh, French: "Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam", English: “League for the Independence of Vietnam") was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on May 19, 1941.

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Video on demand

Video on demand is a programming system which allows users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content such as movies and TV shows whenever they choose, rather than at a scheduled broadcast time, the method that prevailed with over-the-air programming during the 20th century.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wallace Terry

Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 – May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1984), which served as a basis for the 1995 crime thriller Dead Presidents.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR, West German Broadcasting Cologne) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne.

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1st Cavalry Division (United States)

The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team") is a combined arms division and is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anderson_Platoon

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