Underplayed Gems

Escadrons de la mort: L'école française (2003)

Escadrons de la mort: L'école française poster
Original title
Escadrons De La Mort : L'École Française
Directed by
Marie-Monique Robin
Genre
documentary film
Country
Bolivia, France
Runtime
1h
Rating
8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary traces how the French military's counter-revolutionary tactics from the Algerian War were later taught to the United States and South American armies. It shows the spread of these techniques through training centers and military regimes.

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What happens

Escadrons de la mort, l’école française est un livre de Marie-Monique Robin, dont elle a aussi fait un film documentaire, diffusé la première fois sur Canal+ le 1er septembre 2003 et rediffusé en 2004. Le documentaire démontre comment les méthodes de guerre contre-révolutionnaire employées par l'armée française pendant la guerre d'Algérie, en particulier pendant la bataille d'Alger, ont ensuite été enseignées aux États-Unis (notamment à Fort Bragg) de même qu'en Amérique du Sud, au Centre d'instruction de la guerre dans la jungle de Manaus au Brésil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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