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Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

Bob and crew entertain military personnel at stops through Southeast Asia and Europe.

Thi Vo searches for his biological father in Vietnam after over three decades of separation. Thi Vo was a refugee escaping Vietnam with his mother when he was only a baby. Fleeing to Hong Kong where they later immigrated to Canada at the age of four. 30 years later, he had the desire to not only find his family whom he had never met, but to ultimately find his father and uncover the mystery of his background. In this emotional heart felt feature documentary, we follow Thi Vo and his friends into the heart Vietnam as they search all over the country for clues and connect with all sorts of people who help them along their way.

In North Vietnam, the village Cao-Xa, a Catholic village, is attacked by the forces of the Vietcong. When its priest, a Spanish Dominican, is made to leave the village, all of the village inhabitant decide to share his fate and follow him. Their fight becomes one of continual hardship.

From the rice paddies and small canals of the southern Mekong Delta to the tribal villages of the northern and central highlands to the bustle of its modern cities, Vietnam is a surprise and a delight.

A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants.

This travel diary of the filmmaker's trip to Vietnam with her sister Dana is a colleciton of tourism, city life, culture clash, and historic inquiry that is put together with the warmth of a quilt. The film combines Vietnamese parables, history, and memories of the people the sisters met as well as their own childhood recollections of the war on TV.

AS THE CALL, SO THE ECHO tells the story of an American surgeon who volunteers in a poverty stricken hospital in central Vietnam. When a woman with a deadly cancer is presented to him, he must struggle to save her life, fighting to overcome a language barrier, limited equipment, and his deepest fears.

The film tells the story of King Quang Trung and his Tay Son troops, in which they defeated 200,000 Chinese Qing soldiers in Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da, a suburban area of Thang Long (now Hanoi) in 1789.

The globe-trotting reality series concludes its third edition as the final three teams dash to the finish line and attempted to claim the $1 million first-place prize. "We've been extremely lucky now for the third time to create a great finish," says host Phil Keoghan of this leg of the race. "You're going to see teams at the highest highs and the lowest lows." The final leg of the 41,000-mile race begins in Vietnam. The teams then make their way to Hawaii and finally to Seattle, Washington.

Beginning of the journey in Ho Chi Minh Ville or Saigon: great traffic of scooters (about 6 millions of scooters), A short look at the old French buildings: Notre Dame de Saigon, the Town Hall, the Post Office, the Opera.Now Philippe goes to the railway station: he sees how people send their scooters to another station.Meeting with a woman and talk about the smile (the best thing that we can give to other persons).Another encounter: two Buddhist nuns.Arrival at Da Nang.Philippe meet at Mi-Son Mr. Tien who shows him this religious center of the Chams (a civilization from the second to 15 the century).Then Philippe goes fishing with a young man in his round basket.Philippe takes the train to Hué: women who sell products to the passengers are travelling on the roofs of the wagons.At Hué visit of the Imperial City (palaces, mausoleums, tombs).Then Philippe meets Chung t, the Buddhist nun, they prepare food and have a nice talk about peace and smiling.Then train to Hanoi: a short moment with a young woman who lives very near of the railway tracks.Then Philip goes to the Old Hanoi (32 specialized streets).He meets a woman who speaks French and is buying gifts for her ancestors (banknotes, gold bars, cell phones, houses, cars) and later they burn all these gifts n a metal box on the street.

The Amazing Race Asia is a reality television competition between ten teams of two in a race around the world. The race is divided into a number of legs wherein teams travel and complete various tasks to obtain clues to help them progress to a Pit Stop where they are given a chance to rest and recover before starting the next leg twelve hours later. The first team to arrive at a Pit Stop is often awarded a prize while the last team is normally eliminated from the race (except in non-elimination legs, where the last team to arrive may be penalised in the following leg). The final leg of each race is run by the last three remaining teams, and the first to arrive at the final destination wins the US$100,000 cash prize.

The eleven teams travel from Lombok, Indonesia to Hue, Vietnam. Many teams struggle to find flights out of Indonesia. One team asks about getting off the island by bus, while another team cannot agree on how they should get to Vietnam, causing sparks to fly.

The ten remaining teams travel from Hue, Vietnam to Macau, China. They all have to search for a good fortune among hundreds of cookies in Hong Kong, but will any of them be brave enough to attempt a hair-raising Fast Forward?

Markus Winter plans to build a new resort near his Vietnamese luxury hotel. On the flight he got a crush on consultancy firm executive Nora Mäder, but she's a spy for a Chinese competitor. German restaurant chain owner Erik Krüger wants to lure back his son and prospective heir Malte, who however feels he found happiness as cook in Markus's hotel, preparing traditional Vietnamese cuisine like his fiancée Lamai's mother. Erik flies in Malte's Hamburg ex-fiancée Susanne, a compatible heiress. Resourceful Fabian gets caught in his own white Internet lies to seduce younger and fitter Susanne.

North Vietnamese troops make their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, defying American air power. While the anti-war movement escalates back home, American soldiers realize this war is like no other.

Shaken by the violence of the Tet Offensive, assassinations of leaders and domestic unrest, Americans begin to doubt President Lyndon B. Johnson's promise that victory in Vietnam is near and he ultimately decides not to seek reelection.

Draft-age Americans wrestle with their choices. Richard Nixon narrowly wins the presidential election. Soldiers on all sides of the conflict witness savagery and courage.

President Richard Nixon begins withdrawing American troops from Vietnam, but his authorization of the invasion of Cambodia sparks large protests in America.

The South Vietnamese fight on their own, succumbing to terrible losses in Laos. After he is reelected, President Richard Nixon strikes a peace deal with Hanoi that sees the release of American prisoners of war.