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Writer:
Peter Arnett (writer)
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Release Date:
1980 (Canada) more
Genre:
History | War more
Plot:
A comprehensive history of the American stage of the Vietnam War.
User Comments:
The whole nine yards about the Vietnam conflict. more

Cast

 (Series Cast) (in credits order)

Richard Basehart ... Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ellsworth Bunker ... Himself (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)
Clark Clifford ... Himself (Secretary of Defense)
William Colby ... Himself (CIA Director)
David Dellinger ... Himself (pacifist leader)
John Ehrlichman ... Himself (Nixon's senior domestic aide)
Daniel Ellsberg ... Himself
J. William Fulbright ... Himself (also archive footage) (as Sen. William Fulbright)
Doris Kearns Goodwin ... Herself (biographer of LBJ) (as Doris Kearns)
Alexander Haig ... Himself (Nixon's Chief of Staff) (as Gen. Alexander Haig)
David Harris ... Himself (husband of Joan Baez)
Brian Jenkins ... Himself (military analyst)
Robert Komer ... Himself
Melvin Laird ... Himself (Nixon's Secretary of Defense)
Henry Cabot Lodge ... Himself (US Ambassador to South Vietnam)
Eugene McCarthy ... Himself (presidential candidate) (also archive footage) (as Sen. Eugene McCarthy)
Jack McCloskey ... Himself (veteran, USMC)
Tom McClure ... Himself (veteran, US Army)
Van Thieu Nguyen ... Himself (President of South Vietnam) (also archive footage)
Tim O'Brien ... Himself (veteran, US Army)
Jerry Rubin ... Himself (peace activist)
Dean Rusk ... Himself (LBJ's Secretary of State) (also archive footage)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ... Himself (Kennedy advisor)
Maxwell Taylor ... Himself (US Ambassador to South Vietnam) (as Gen. Maxwell Taylor)
William C. Westmoreland ... Himself (also archive footage) (as Gen. William Westmoreland)
Spiro Agnew ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Muhammad Ali ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Baez ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daniel Berrigan ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stokely Carmichael ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ramsey Clark ... Himself (in Cabinet meeting with LBJ) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard J. Daley ... Himself (Mayor of Chicago) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jane Fonda ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chi Minh Ho ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lyndon Johnson ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Coretta Scott King ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Luther King ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Kissinger ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Duc Tho Le ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Mitchell ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martha Mitchell ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Nixon ... Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Van Dong Pham ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nelson Rockefeller ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nguyen Giap Vo ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Earl Warren ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Peter Arnett  writer

Produced by
Michael Maclear .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Michael Savoie 
 
Other crew
Donna Dudinsky .... researcher
Shelley Saywell .... researcher
 

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Additional Details

Country:
Canada
Language:
English

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
The whole nine yards about the Vietnam conflict., 26 September 2000
Author: yenlo from Auburn, Me

Without question the finest most thorough documentary about the entire Vietnam conflict. The years from 1945 until the fall of Saigon in 1975 are covered with scores of interviews, newsreel footage and photos. Each episode deals with a specific part of the conflict i.e. The Air campaign, The Guerilla war, the American homefront, The French involvement etc. Narrated superbly by Richard Basehart this is to the Vietnam conflict what Ken Burns The Civil War was to that conflict.

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