Vietnam: 50 Years Remembered

2015
4.2
9 reviews
TV-PG
Rating
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Vietnam: 50 Years Remembered episodes (7)

1 Indochina To U.S. Involvement
1/1/15
Season-only
A look at the turmoil building in the Indochina region since the beginning of World War II, leading up to the involvement of the United States.
2 Boots On The Ground
1/1/15
Season-only
As it became clear the South Vietnamese security forces would not provide adequate security for the US Air Force bases in Southeast Asia, President Lyndon Johnson authorized the beginning of the ground war.
3 War Is Hell
1/1/15
Season-only
As troop morale declined, US generals began to advocate for a more aggressive strategy to take the war to the NLF, abandoning the idea that South Vietnam could take back the North without US assistance.
4 The Tet Offensive
1/1/15
Season-only
A truce normally marked the Lunar New Year (Tet), but in 1968, the NLF broke the truce in order to launch the largest battle of the war: The Tet Offensive.
5 Prisoners Of War
1/1/15
Season-only
During the course of the war, the NLF captured thousands of US soldiers, some of whom were never recovered. Their recovery was used as part of Nixon's justification for continuing the war
6 Vietnamization
1/1/15
Season-only
The Nixon Doctrine called for the bolstering of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in order for them to take over the defense of South Vietnam. However, their efforts eventually prove to be in vain, leading to the evacuation of the US and South Vietnamese forces in the Fall of Saigon.
7 The War Remembered
1/1/15
Season-only
The political costs for the war began to add up for the Nixon Administration, and the South Vietnamese were now on their own. The American troops were home, but there was little celebration. The scars of the war would linger in American culture for decades to come.

About this show

This soon-to-be classic documentary mini-series traces the causes, courses as well as the major events and personalities of the American Civil War! Between 1861 and 1865, this epic American story of struggle and survival was written in blood, and in this series is told mostly from first-hand accounts and in the spoken words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and memoirs. The series concludes with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and the surrender of the western Confederate Army to Sherman in North Carolina in the spring of 1865. It then explores the legacy of slavery and the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country forever.

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4.2
9 reviews
deborah elliott
December 14, 2021
The sound quality is awful. The Ken Burns series on Vietnam is 10 times better with better narration. Sloppy productions with bad sound are a rip off.
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Victor Peraino
May 7, 2022
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