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An 11-hour
documentary about the Vietnam War
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Disc One:
Roots of a War (1945-1953)
The cheapest way to security
A history of struggle
Uncle Ho's Vietminh
Negotiating with France
Dien Bien Phu and Geneva
America's Mandarin (1954-1963)
Premier Diem
Consolidating power
A war of national liberation
Buddhist resistance
A coup
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Disc Two:
New Governments
The Gulf of Tonkin
Viet Cong attacks
A gradual buildup
No retreat
Enlistment
A hidden society
Doubts
A village raid
Battlefield
Political solutions
The Viet Cong
On the ground and in the sky
The American imperialists
Ho Chi Minh trail
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Disc
Three:
Public relations offensive
Hue: imperial capital
Mixed messages
Pressures on the President
Talking and fighting
American support
Local businesses
Dien Bien Phu and Geneva
The Phoenix program
Vietnamization
Laos
Sihanouk's balancing act
Lon Nol takes charge
The Nixon doctrine
The Khmer Rouge
Coming Home
Schisms
Secret talks and state visits
Agreement on the table
Peace at hand
Sharpening Debate
Protest to resistance
The campaign of 1968
Moratorium and mobilization
New battlegrounds
Ceasefire
American promises
The North advances
Saigon before the rainy season
Evacuating Saigon
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Robert
McNamarra, U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson
Administrations in
The fog of war
part 1
The fog of war
part 2
Home | Outlines | Conflict in Laos | War and Revolution | A history of Laos | Laos: Buffer State or Battleground | The lands of charm and cruelty | The Indochine experience of the French and the Americans | Anatomy of a crisis | Red Brotherhood at war | Apprentice Revolutionaries | Pawns of War | Noam Chomsky | Timeline | Photo Gallery | Video: Vietnam War | 1. Introduction | Agreement on the Cessation of hostilities in Laos
This site was last updated
10/01/05
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