The Vietnam War Season 1
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Episodes
E1After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided into North and South.
E2As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with American involvement in South Vietnam.
E3With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ begins bombing the North and sends US troops to the South.
E4US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, while the antiwar movement grows.
E5President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
E6Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
E7After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, narrowly wins the presidency.
E8Nixon withdraws troops but when he sends forces into Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
E9South Vietnam fights on its own as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. The POWs return.
E10Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for reconciliation.