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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 ...
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 ...
President John F. Kennedy and his advisors consider how deeply the U.S. should get involved in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency and Buddhist protests intensify.
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Huy Duc | ... | Himself - N. Vietnam / ... 8 episodes, 2017 |
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Duong Van Mai Elliott | ... | Herself - Saigon / ... 8 episodes, 2017 |
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James Willbanks | ... | Himself - Army / ... 8 episodes, 2017 |
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Karl Marlantes | ... | Himself - Marines / ... 7 episodes, 2017 |
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John Musgrave | ... | Himself - Marines / ... 7 episodes, 2017 |
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Nguyen Ngoc | ... | Himself - N. Vietnamese Army / ... 7 episodes, 2017 |
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Bao Ninh | ... | Himself - N. Vietnamese Army / ... 7 episodes, 2017 |
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Phan Quang Tue | ... | Himself - Saigon 7 episodes, 2017 |
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Carol Crocker | ... | Herself / ... 6 episodes, 2017 |
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Leslie Gelb | ... | Himself - Pentagon 6 episodes, 2017 |
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Roger Harris | ... | Himself - Marines / ... 6 episodes, 2017 |
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Bill Zimmerman | ... | Himself - Illinois / ... 6 episodes, 2017 |
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Bui Diem | ... | Himself - S. Vietnamese Diplomat 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Ron Ferrizzi | ... | Himself - Army 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Robert Gard | ... | Himself - Army / ... 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Hal Kushner | ... | Himself - POW / ... 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Neil Sheehan | ... | Himself - Journalist / ... 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Jack Todd | ... | Himself - Montreal / ... 5 episodes, 2017 |
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides-Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. THE VIETNAM WAR features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from greatest artists of the era and haunting original music from ...
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The unedited 10 episode version became available in Germany on Netflix on June 20, 2018. See more »Goofs
In a number of instances the music is totally out of place, an example being the use of Led Zeppelin's Kashmire (1975) to support content from 1969 and two previously unknown alternate takes of Beatles songs that weren't even released until Anthology (1995) - a full generation after the depicted events. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Every episode is an extraordinary lesson and the teachers are not trying to convert us but enlighten us. One side, both sides, all sides.To me, personally, the most shocking aspect of it all is its absurdity. As more troops are sent back to Afghanistan by the Trump administration, one wonders. Haven't we learned anything? Watching and listening to American vets, listening to Vietcong veterans saying, "We saw the American crying for their deaths and I though, they are just like us" The fact that something like that can be a revelation is part of the mystery of it all. Don't we know from day one that we're all the same? Humans. To Ken Burns and all of his partners and collaborators, thank you, thank you very much.