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Vietnam: A Television History

10.0 / 10

1983

1 season

13 episodes

Documentary

A six-year project from conception to completion, "Vietnam: A Television History" carefully analyzes the costs and consequences of a controversial but intriguing war. From the first hour through the last, the series provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues.

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Cast

Will Lyman

Birch Bayh

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Roots of a War: 1945-53
04-10-198360m
The end of World War II opened the way for the return of French rule to Indochina. Despite the ties he had forged within the American intelligence community, and his professed resp...
Ep 2
2.The First Vietnam War
05-10-198360m
The eight-year battle between the French and Vietminh is examined.
Ep 3
3.America's Mandarin: 1954-63
11-10-198360m
With a goal of stopping the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, America replaced France in South Vietnam -- supporting autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem until his own generals...
Ep 4
4.LBJ Goes to War: 1964-65
18-10-198360m
With Ho Chi Minh determined to reunite Vietnam, President Lyndon Baines Johnson determined to prevent it, and South Vietnam on the verge of collapse, the stage was set for massive...
Ep 5
5.America Takes Charge: 1965-67
25-10-198360m
In two years, the Johnson administration's troop build-up dispatched 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam to fight a war they found baffling, tedious, exciting, deadly and unforgettabl...
Ep 6
6.America's Enemy: 1954-67
01-11-198360m
The Vietnam War as seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas and sympathizers, by North Vietnamese leaders and rank and file, and by Americans held prisoner in Hanoi.
Ep 7
7.Tet: 1968
08-11-198360m
The massive enemy offensive at the lunar New Year decimated the Vietcong and failed to topple the Saigon government -- but led to the beginning of America's military withdrawal fro...
Ep 8
8.Vietnamizing the War: 1969-73
15-11-198360m
President Richard Nixon's program of troop pull-outs, stepped-up bombing and huge arms shipments to Saigon changed the war and left GIs wondering which of them would be the last to...
Ep 9
9.Cambodia and Laos
22-11-198360m
Despite technical neutrality, both of Vietnam's smaller neighbors were drawn into the war, suffered massive bombings, and, in the case of Cambodia, endured a post-war holocaust of...
Ep 10
10.Peace is at Hand: 1968-73
29-11-198360m
While American and Vietnamese soldiers continued to clash in battle, diplomats in Paris argued about making peace. After more than four years, they reached an accord that proved to...
Ep 11
11.Homefront USA
06-12-198360m
Through troubled years of controversy and violence, U.S .casualties mounted, victory remained elusive, and American opinion moved from general approval to general dissatisfaction w...
Ep 12
12.The End of the Tunnel: 1973-75
13-12-198360m
South Vietnamese leaders believed that America would never let them go down to defeat -- a belief that died as North Vietnamese tanks smashed into Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the...
Ep 13
13.Legacies
20-12-198360m
The legacy of the Vietnam War is examined.

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