Overview
- Action directe, nos années de plomb by Vanessa Schneider and Virginie Linhart was broadcast on 14 September on France 5.
- The filmmakers build the narrative from television news footage, police documents and interviews with lawyers, judges and investigators.
- The documentary traces the far‑left group’s trajectory from 1979 to 1987, including robberies, bombings and the 1986 assassination of Renault chief Georges Besse.
- Coverage cites roughly 80 attacks with at least 26 injuries and between eight and 12 deaths, reflecting differing source counts.
- The arrests at a Vitry‑aux‑Loges safehouse are shown as the group’s collapse, dated February 1987 in multiple reports though one account cites 1986, and the release renews debate over how this violence is remembered today.