Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War

Made for Canadian television in 1980 & later syndicated lớn American stations, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War is an almost twelve-hour documentary about the history of Vietnam from the over of WWII through the fall of Saigon in 1975. Time Life has just issued the series in a 4 DVD set.

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Future CNN war correspondent (and Canadian) Peter Arnett wrote the narration and conducted the interviews for the series & the Richard Basehart narrates the documentary, something that might be disconcerting for anyone who recognizes his voice as the narrator of Knight Rider.

Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War was a sensation when it was first broadcast in the days before 24-hour wall-to-wall news coverage: most people only had their memories of what they saw on the evening news when it came khổng lồ the United States experience in Vietnam. Few knew much about the long war between the French và North Vietnam that predated a significant American presence by over a decade.

The filmmakers use their long size format và the fact many of the important players were still alive khổng lồ explore as many angles as they can: they interview kftvietnam.com and government officials from France, the United States & both North & South Vietnam. Those are supported by a massive amount of newsreel & television footage and interviews with the men who served in the war.

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Anyone looking for advocacy here is going to lớn be disappointed. While the film takes an unvarnished look at the cultural assumptions & kftvietnam.com short-sightedness that complicated (and possibly doomed) efforts to lớn win the war, it also features interviews with North Vietnamese officials who say news footage of the anti-war protests back in the United States was a great morale booster for their people & helped motivate them to continue their fight.

The first episode is an hour-long overview of the United States" history in the country which sets the stage for those too young to remember the war. The series then goes back to World War II and begins khổng lồ explore the history in greater detail.

Back before they discovered how much money they could make off the Ice Road Truckers và American Pickers, the History Channel used khổng lồ fill hour upon hour with documentary shows that played lượt thích low budget versions of this series. Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War is a relic of an era when news organizations believed they could deliver a definitive story. No matter your experiences during or after that era, this documentary provides both valuable insight into the war and into the era when it was made.