The Vietnam War
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided into North and South.
As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with American involvement in South Vietnam.
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ begins bombing the North and sends US troops to the South.
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, while the antiwar movement grows.
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, narrowly wins the presidency.
Nixon withdraws troops but when he sends forces into Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
South Vietnam fights on its own as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. The POWs return.
Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for reconciliation.
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Stephen Campbell
TMDB7 years ago
One of the finest documentaries ever made
We rationalised destroying villages in order to save them. We saw America lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a Mỹ Lai, and refused to give up the image of American soldiers who hand out chocolate bars and chewing gum. We learned the meaning of free-fire zones – shoot anything that moves – and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals. We watched the United States falsification of body counts, in fact, the glorification of body counts. We listened while, month after month, we were told the back of the enemy was about to break. We fought using weapons against "Oriental human beings", with quotation marks around it, we fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using, were we fighting in the European theatre. We watched while men charged up hills because a general said that hill has to be taken, and, after losing one platoon, or two platoons, they marched away to leave the hill for reoccupation by the North Vietnamese. We watched pride allow the most unimportant battles to be blown into extravaganzas, because we couldn't lose, and we couldn't retreat, and because it didn't matter how many American bodies were lost to prove that point
- LT John Kerry (USN), Coastal Squadron 1; Addressing the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (April 22, 1971)
_I looked up; there were two jets, aiming directly at our command post. He's dropped two cans of napalm, and it's coming towards us, loblolly, end over end. And these kids, two or three of them, plus a sergeant, had dug a hole or two over on the edge. And I looked as this thing exploded, and I saw two of them dancing in that fire. And there's a rush, a roar, from the air that's being consumed and drawn in, as this hell come to earth is burning there. And as that dies back a little, then you can hear the screams. And I heard someone yell, "Get this man's f...
