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Vietnam: A Television History

Season 1 Episode 8: Vietnamizing the War: 1969-73

The next episode explores the Vietnam War's dramatic shift as President Richard Nixon's new strategy, including troop withdrawals, intensified bombing, and massive arms deliveries to Saigon, significantly alters the war's course, causing American soldiers to doubt their own roles i...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 2 The First Vietnam War

2. The First Vietnam War

Aired: Oct 5, 1983

The First Indochina War between French colonial forces and the Vietminh rebel...

Episode 7 Tet: 1968

7. Tet: 1968

Aired: Nov 8, 1983

A crushing blow struck the Vietcong during the Lunar New Year, as a massive e...

Episode 9 Cambodia and Laos

9. Cambodia and Laos

Aired: Nov 22, 1983

The next episode explores the far-reaching and devastating impact of war, as ...

Episode 11 Homefront USA

11. Homefront USA

Aired: Dec 6, 1983

The US faces a stalemate in Vietnam, suffering heavy casualties and a marked ...

Episode 13 Legacies

13. Legacies

Aired: Dec 20, 1983

The next episode explores the profound and lasting impact of the Vietnam War ...

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Network: PBS

Genres:War, Documentary, History