Indochine, la guerre oubliée

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which put an end to the Indochina War, this documentary looks back at this little-known French war, thanks to the recent opening of declassified archives. The Indochina War was the most violent decolonization war of the 20th century. From 1940 to 1954, the pearl of the French colonial empire went up in flames. The French and Vietminh turned the Indochinese peninsula into a bloody inferno, taking an entire people with them. Behind every bomb, every shell, every munition fired, lies the help of the great powers, who have made this conflict a major strategic issue in the Cold War.