At the age of 16, she followed the Viet Minh, participated in the general uprising and "joined women in national salvation in Hải Dương and then worked in the Provincial Association and the inter-provincial affairs III".
[1] She was trained by Russian cinematographers and film experts, known as the East Bloc artists such as Ajdai Ibraghimov, an Azerbaijanian from the Soviet Union.
[3] Bạch Diệp is credited for the creation of fifteen films, with two being very notable - Ngày Lễ Thánh (The Holy Day) (1976) and Huyền Thoại Về Người Mẹ (The Legend of a Mother) (1987).
[5] Bạch Diệp was noted to explore the "innermost feelings of characters" in most of her films.
[5] Diệp extends the concept of motherhood beyond "physical maternity and immediate kinship to the nurturance and protection of children.
"[5] The Legend of a Mother (1987) challenges patriarchal family views by reasserting what it means to be parents to children.
[4] Diệp was diagnosed with cancer and struggled with it until she died in her hometown of Hà Nội.
Bạch Diệp was awarded and noted several times by scholars of different nationalities as a very important women director of Vietnam.