Vietnam the first war: the tiger and the elephant ep.2/2

A documentary directed by Danièle Rousselier.

Synopsis

Resis­tance was get­ting organ­ised all through Viet­nam. It is with much fas­ci­na­tion that the French task force on the ground, dis­cov­ered their enemy. 1950: the Indo-China war was in line with the Cold War. Then came the time of the gréât bat­tles, which ended with the tragedy of Dien-Bien-Phu. On the famous “basin”, a French and a Viet­namese vet­eran remem­ber the hor­rors of the fights. France couldn’t win this war, and every­body — sol­diers and civil­ians alike — in fact knew it. The Geneva Accords inevitably led to the sec­ond war, the Amer­i­can one.