Title from container. Narrator, Richard Basehart. Originally broadcast in 1980.
Contents:
episode 26. Vietnam recalled. episode 2. France in Vietnam; episode 3. Dien Bien Phu; episode 4. Early hope; episode 5. Assassination -- disc 2, episode 6. Days of decision; episode 7. Westy's war; episode 8. Uneasy allies; episode 9. Guerilla Society; episode 10. The trail; episode11. Firepower; episode 12. The village war -- disc 3, episode 13. Air war; episode 14. Siege; episode 15. Tet! episode 16. Frontline America; episode 17. Soldiering on; episode 18. Changing guard; episode 19. Wanting out -- disc 4, episode 20. Bombing of Hanoi; episode 21. Peace and consequence; episode 22. The prisoners; episode 23. The unsung soldiers; episode 24. Final offensive; episode 25. Surrender; episode 26. Vietnam recalled.
Summary:
Known as history's first 'living room war,' the Vietnam conflict is presented with clarity, authority and insight in the nearly ten-hour documentary. Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War; covers the entire conflict, examining the shifting attitudes of the United States toward Vietnam from 1945, when the battleground was known as French Indochina, to 1975, when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese.
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