Films & Shows Set during the French Indochina War

2 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag. 1 title here is set entirely outside the boundaries above, which is usually a period bounded more narrowly than a title that touches it.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the French Indochina War, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen: We Were Soldiers2002
Most recent: To the Ends of the World2018

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FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Military2

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Battle of la Drangpull it on the timeline

Event

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filed under 1965

We Were Soldiers
Unsalted

Also runs throughVietnam War

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

7%1 of the 15 titles the archive sets between 1946 and 1954 carry the French Indochina War tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

19460 of 3 titles set in 1946 carry this period
19470 of 6 titles set in 1947 carry this period
19480 of 3 titles set in 1948 carry this period
19490 of 1 title set in 1949 carries this period
19500 of 2 titles set in 1950 carry this period
19510 of 3 titles set in 1951 carry this period
19520 of 3 titles set in 1952 carry this period
19530 of 2 titles set in 1953 carry this period
19541 of 4 titles set in 1954 carry this period

9 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

War2 · 33%
Action1 · 17%
Adventure1 · 17%
Drama1 · 17%
History1 · 17%

Share of the 6 genre taggings across 2 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Guillaume Nicloux1 title3.3/5unsalted 2Randall Wallace1 title3.5/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

Periods before, during, inside and after French Indochina War, with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
Relation	Period	Runs	Shared years	Shared threads	Titles
Part of	Cold War	1946–1991	1946–1954	none shared	32 titles in the archive
Before	Eastern Front (World War II)	1941–1945	1 year earlier	none shared	8 titles in the archive
Before	Pacific War	1941–1945	1 year earlier	none shared	11 titles in the archive
Before	Second Sino-Japanese War	1937–1945	1 year earlier	none shared	2 titles in the archive
Before	Western Front (World War II)	1939–1945	1 year earlier	none shared	12 titles in the archive
Before	World War II	1937–1945	1 year earlier	none shared	47 titles in the archive
Concurrent	Century of Humiliation	1839–1949	1946–1949	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Indian Independence	1885–1948	1946–1948	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Information Age	1947–present	1947–1954	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Apartheid	1948–1994	1948–1954	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Korean War	1950–1953	1950–1953	none shared	1 title in the archive
After	Algerian War	1954–1962	1954	none shared	2 titles in the archive
After	American Civil Rights Movement	1954–1968	1954	none shared	3 titles in the archive