• The Anderson Platoon (French: La Section Anderson, released in 1966 in Europe, 1967 in the US) is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about...
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  • joined the then Lt. Anderson's platoon in Vietnam. The footage they recorded became a documentary titled The Anderson Platoon (La Section Anderson), directed...
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  • Platoon system, a technique used in baseball and football One-platoon system a technique used in football Platoon Leader (film) The Anderson Platoon Platoon:...
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    Pierre Schoendoerffer (category French military personnel of the First Indochina War)
    Screenplay The 317th Platoon 1967: Academy Award for Documentary Feature (Oscars): The Anderson Platoon 1967: Prix Italia: The Anderson Platoon 1967: Merit...
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    as their anthem, as shown in Pierre Schoendoerffer's documentary The Anderson Platoon (1967) and reprised in a scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket...
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    operation, his platoon was advancing through the jungle near Cam Lo Combat Base when they were ambushed by North Vietnamese forces. Anderson jumped on a...
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  • = 2,859 in total Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
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  • Saints Joseph B. Anderson (born 1943), American executive with T.A.G. Holdings, whose Vietnam War service was portrayed in The Anderson Platoon Joseph Gaudentius...
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    heroic actions above and beyond the call of duty in August 1969 during the Vietnam War. On 24 August 1969, Anderson's platoon was ambushed near Vandegrift...
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    had covered the Vietnam War he released The Anderson Platoon, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American...
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    Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War The Anderson Platoon "African-Americans In Combat". PBS. Retrieved 29 November 2021. "African-Americans...
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  • The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were...
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  • example of the "innocent" stereotype is the character of Chris in the 1986 film Platoon. Chris is a naïve and innocent young man who joins the Army in 1967...
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  • 40th Academy Awards (category 1967 awards in the United States)
    thriller/mystery film, In the Heat of the Night. The Graduate became the seventh film to win Best Director and nothing else, and the last until the 94th Academy Awards...
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  • Halls of Montezuma (film) (category Films about the United States Marine Corps)
    thanks. But as Anderson makes his way back to the platoon, he learns Conroy has been killed. Anderson takes the news hard, questioning the meaning of his...
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  • Senator Joseph McCarthy" and "Harvest of Shame." The Anderson Platoon (documentary) The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam (documentary) Basic Training (documentary)...
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  • Dien Bien Phu (film) (category Films about the French Foreign Legion)
    documentary, The Anderson Platoon (La Section Anderson), won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Later Schoendoerffer was named Vice-President of the French...
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    assaulted by the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment. The engagement resulted in 1 U.S. and 40 PAVN killed. The Anderson Platoon won the 1967 Academy...
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  • Kon-Tiki (1950 film) (category Films directed by Thor Heyerdahl)
    Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway...
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    Academy Award-winning documentary The Anderson Platoon named after the leader of the platoon - Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson - with which Schoendoerffer and...
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  • details the performances of French actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award (The Oscars)...
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    in L.A. (1985), Platoon (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Flight of the Intruder (1991), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), The Boondock Saints...
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  • To the Shores of Hell (1966) The Anderson Platoon (1967) Philcag in Vietnam (1967) The Green Berets (1968) The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969) The Losers...
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    writer, war reporter and war cameraman who won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. Barbara Schulz, actress. Simone Simon, actress...
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  • (known before the 2019 awards as Best Foreign Language Film) itself. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are among the world's oldest...
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    photographer Dominique Merlin and saw the footage that he captured for The Anderson Platoon, a documentary about the Vietnam War. Inspired by his work, she...
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  • Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941 to 1943. Similar to the previous film, Toon Platoon featured many cameo appearances by characters from The Golden...
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  • The British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme, or BAFTA TV Award for Best International, is an award presented by the British...
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  • A Face of War (category Documentary films about the Vietnam War)
    from entertainment. List of American films of 1968 The Anderson Platoon, documentary of a US Army platoon in Vietnam in 1966 Thompson, Howard (May 11, 1968)...
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    My Lai massacre (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    S. forces in the 20th century. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company...
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