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The Vietnam War is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and narrated by Peter Coyote. [1] [2] [3] The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV-MA rating.
Documentary films about the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Pages in category "Documentary films about the Vietnam War" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the course of the war a large segment of Americans became opposed to U.S. involvement. In January 1967, only 32% of Americans thought the US had made a mistake in sending troops. [222]
Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part documentary mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955–1975) from the perspective of the United States. It was produced for public television by WGBH-TV in Boston, Central Independent Television of the UK and Antenne-2 of France. It was originally broadcast on PBS between October 4 and December ...
Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent is a 59-minute documentary film about a protest against the Vietnam War divided into three sections, mirroring the movements of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, to which the film is set.
In 1989, the film won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. [3] Upon release, Bilton and Sim's book Four Hours in My Lai was met with mixed reception. In a review for Chicago Tribune, Marc Leepson criticised the book for avoiding "the common tactics of the Viet Cong", and describing their activities "in euphemistically positive terms."
The title “Lighter than Orange” is a reference to the changes in the genome brought back from the war zones by the returnees, which, unlike actual war trophies, had no weight. [ 2 ] A large part of the film was shot in March 2012 in the Vietnam Friendship Village , on the western outskirts of Hanoi in the formerly rural Hoài Đức district.
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only—or to risk punishment and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens ...