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Summary: Superb
Review: Anyone interested in the Vietnam saga has to watch this documentary. It is thorough - at times a tiny bit repetitive - and whilst understandably centered on the American experience there, it also describes the French debacle and puts the whole episode in context. Some of the choices can be disputed - the intrinsically totalitarian nature of Hanoi's regime is quite understaed for instance - but these are minor details in an otherwise admirable work.
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Summary: best documentary of all time in my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: helps me to better understand and appreciate freedom, democracy and the american way. richard basehart is what really makes series what it is as narrator. helps me see what our troops were up against over there and explains facets of the war that we all should be aware about in se asia. helps tell vietnamese side of war as well. best vietnam chronicle ive ever seen on tv. sure was a long time coming. one of a kind series. great!
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Summary: Not unbalanced to right
Review: I disagree with John Carlson:
Has he seen the episode on the Ho Chi Minh trail?
It basically glorifies the North Vietnam army and people and shows shortcomings of our military strategy (the US). The other episodes often times give left-leaning opinions on the war.
Arthur Schlesinger for instance doesn't disagree with the war, but castigates Gen. Westmoreland for his leadership in it.
At 36 in 2004, I generally have a middle-of-the-road point of view on Vietnam and was tempted to turn the channel when viewing that above episode and some others because I was ashamed and angered to be shown that we didn't have the upper hand in many respects of that war.
Also Peter Arnett, who had a major role in the production of this film is an established Anti-war journalist most recently being fired by CNN...etc.
So how can you conclude that this program is slanted toward the right?
All in all, I think this series is teriffic and is a wealth of knowledge into that era for people seeking to learn more.
Dan Kucherich
Whitehall, PA
dannyk@fast.net
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Summary: Put This Indispensable Masterpiece Back In Print!!!
Review: I have had the chance to watch many episodes of this brilliant and IMHO indispensable and exhaustive historical documentary on the Vietnam war. As this is definitely a war which did suffer from constant disinformation in its coverage at the time, this presentation systematically discloses all the events in their proper perspective. Nothing else I have seen so far in a video format even comes close to the excellency and thoroughness of this realization. Plus the solid pace does keep your attention appropriately riveted. But it is now impossible to find since it appears to be out-of-print. Please bring this great DVD set back in print!
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Summary: Email the folks at Image Entertainment!
Review: I love this series. I teach at the college level and desperately want my students to see this! I was too broke to buy the DVD series the first time now I cannot find it anywhere. When is it going to be re-released? Does anyone know anything? Where to write the distribution company perhaps?
The folks at Image Entertainment own the rights to this series and have told me they have no plans to re-release it. If you want it re-released find their web-page (just put Image Entertainment in your search engine) and email them and let them hear from you! Its the only way to get them to understand how badly people want this re-released. Otherwise I fear it is lost to history.
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Summary: On DVD...finally!
Review: I've owned and treasured an incomplete VHS set of this marvelous series since the late 80's, and now I know where part of my tax refund is going. This fascinating documentary series from the late 70's walks a very fine line between scholarship and pure entertainment. Although the delivery is decidedly dry, representing well the less sensationalistic Cronkite-era jounalistic dignity, this very long series never ceases to inform and absorb you. Viewers who have come of age in the CNN/Oliver Stone era may have a tough time NOT being told who the villians are, but man oh man is it a blessed relief for sentient humans. Vietnam:The ten thousand day war, is as close to agenda-free as you will ever see these days. The roles and experiences of the 3 Presidential administrations, the Vietminh, and the anti-war demonstrators are studied in minute detail, never betraying for a moment any editorial slant at all. The day-long running time allows for an exhaustive look at all aspects of the conflict including several with which most of us are unfamiliar, the early stages of the conflict and the role of the French for example, spending almost 2 hours on Dien Bien Phu alone. The film spends a great deal of time following the enormous diplomatic complexities the conflict entailed, instantly making fools of all the pundits of any political stripe who nursed any number of pat, absurd "Why don't we just leave??" or "Why don't we just flatten them??" notions. The one thing I can promise the casual historian or political science major is this; you will walk away from the experience of this documentary series knowing a great deal more about the Vietnam war and era than you did before you sat down. It is, without a doubt the most scholarly and objective documentary on any subject I have ever seen, and yes, that includes Burns's The Civil War.
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Summary: Must Have
Review: I've seen almost all Nam's TV documentaries because I bought them and this one is the most comprehensive. It states the facts and having owned the VHS tapes (that I offered to someone dear to me), I'm now expecting for the other documentaries (CBS, ABC) to be on DVD.
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Summary: VETNAM
Review: It a very well done documenty series on Vetnam. It trys to tell the story with out the rewriting history or the preaching (as commonly done with any of the history chanles). It contains some very good interviews with all both sides of the war. It well worth watching it for the interveiw Northern Vetnam leaders and US as well. I would say the only better Documenty would be WGBH Vetnam .
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Summary: The Truth About Vietnam
Review: Produced at a time when the public's conception of the war was at an impass, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War was not only a document of one of the darkest chapters in American History, but an indictment of war as a whole.This unflinching documentary will take places you never thought you'd see. The jungles, the cities, the back roads, the fields, even the mountains of what was once an idyllic paradise, all are the backdrop for a journey of horror. Combining news, military, and independent documentary footage, we are transported through the entire spectrum of the conflict. We see it all, from the end of French Occupation, through the arrival of military "advosors", Tet, and the fall of Saigon. You'll even examine the war at home. If you are still questioning why this tiny country in southeast asia was so crucial to our country's history, make this the first and last documentary you watch on the subject. You'll never be the same again.
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Summary: Obviously Misinformed
Review: The following review was written: Very unbalanced point of view, December 12, 2001
Reviewer: Larry T Stone from St. Petersburg, Fl United States
This documentary is overwhelmingly pro-war, anti-Vietnamese. It essentially demonizes the Vietnamese who fought for their country and totally disregards the fact that the US attempting to force its will on them led to the deaths of 3 million Asians. He wrote "the Vietnamese who fought for their country"
This idiot thinks that North and South Vietnam fought together
for their country, the North and South fought against each other
not together as one. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was not, North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam to make it communist, South Vietnam fought against becoming communist. He wrote: "totally disregards the fact that the US attempting to force its will on them led to the deaths of 3 million Asians." Obviously mis-informed again, who is "them" that you write?
North Vietnam or South or both?
the U.S didn't force it's will on "them" We fought "with" South Vietnam to stop the North. North Vietnam created the situation and events that led to the deaths of Vietnamese by invading South Vietnam Our role there was very politcally movtivated, we wanted to stop the spread of communism. A bad political decision imho. Next time you write a review, get both sides of the story, not just your bleeding heart liberal opinion.
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