 Stone was working as a freelancer for CBS News in Laos when he was called back to Saigon in March 1970 to work as a combat cameraman with John Laurence who was making a documentary that would become "The World of Charlie Company".He spent 5 days working on the documentary before being sent by CBS to Phnom Penh on 28 March to cover the aftermath of the Cambodian coup.On April 6, 1970, Stone and his colleague Sean Flynn were captured by the People's Army of Vietnam after leaving Phnom Penh on rented Honda motorbikes looking to find the front lines of fighting in Cambodia.