Concentrating on the confusion, fear, loneliness and moral compromises made by, as often as not, young men barely out of school, Schoendoerffer recorded the fall of the French at Dien Bien Phu and won ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war onscreen and on the page, died Wednesday, March 14, after an operation at a ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early 1950s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu. The experience was, it can be inferred, a defining one for ...

Legendary war cameraman, filmmaker and writer won an Oscar in 1968 for his documentary The Anderson Platoon, following American soldiers in Vietnam. Legendary French war cameraman and filmmaker Pierre ...

PARISPARIS — Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page, has died. He was 83. The French ...

PARIS - Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled war on screen and on the page, has died. He was 83. The French military health ...

Oscar-winning French filmmaker, novelist and war reporter Pierre Schoendoerffer, a renowned chronicler of conflicts from Vietnam to Algeria, has died aged 83, his family said Wednesday. "Pierre ...

It was hardly surprising that Schoendoerffer’s take on war was so demanding and unvarnished: he had started his career in film as a cameraman with the Service Cinématographique des Armées; dispatched ...

PARIS - Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page, has died at 83. The French military health ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer, an acclaimed French filmmaker and war reporter whose camera captured France's military defeat in Indochina, has died near Paris at the aged of 83. Schoendoerffer won an Oscar ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer, who has died aged 83, was an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page. His work influenced a generation of directors and helped ...