The Anderson Platoon

A documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War. Winner of the 1968 Academy Award for best Documentary Feature.

Cast

Pierre Schoendoerffer

as narrator

Joseph B. Anderson

as self

Stuart Whitman

as narrator (English)

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