(1-5) Vietnam 1965-1975, as seen on British television.

[exrock712]

Were the American New Left Anti-war or really pro war, that is pro communist revolutionary war in both Vietnam and even in America? Le Duc Tho used to torture Kissinger during the "Peace" talks in Paris, saying we know what's going on at your campuses, we know about the "peace" movement, the so called "progressive" movement. He knew he had Kissinger boxed in tight and got him to agree to over 140,000 NVA troops staying in the South after the "cease fire".

[shetlandwool]

Americans were not invaders. the people who trained and financed communist forces are responsable. People in the West and in the East, known for their money, influence and their disregard for any national law or moral principles. those'r the crooks, who organise this.

[1993thanhtrong]

đế quốc thật dã man..nhưng Việt Nam là một đất nước kiên cường không bao giờ chịu khuất phục trước thế lực to lớn nào..1000 năm đô hộ của Trung Quốc, gần 100 năm thực dân Pháp xâm lược và 30 năm trong kháng chiến chống Mỹ, dân tộc Việt Nam không bị mất gốc, tạo ra tiếng nói riêng, giữ gìn bản sắc dân tộc của tổ tiên. mặc dù tôi sinh ra trong thời bình của thế kỷ 20( 1993) nhưng tôi cũng thắm thía được những hy sinh gian khổ của dân tộc tôi tự hào là con dân nước Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa ViệtNam

[kike12386]

god bless UK for its objectivity! we've been sick of the american bullshit movies.the americans were invaders and they deserved their lesson.unfortunately they are so idiot to learn from history cause simply they dont have their own.

[wdsf5193]

Once they are convinced the US withdrawal will be permanent, the communists again start to move south, easily sweeping aside the now demoralised and ineffective South Vietnamese troops. The communists take Saigon on 30 April 1975, bringing the war finally to an end.

Ho Chi Minh's birth name Nguyen Sinh Cung.

Saigon is renamed to Ho Chi Minh City after VC took over, and used to be Prey Nokor.

Any way, are you VC???!! VC?? VC?? Prepare for the Chinese now !!! U can do it w/ your BIG TRICK !

[wdsf5193]

On 27 January 1973 all parties sign the 'Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam', the so-called 'Paris Accords'. The agreement is essentially the same as the one sabotaged by Nixon and Kissinger in 1968. It provides for a cease-fire and the full withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam. By the end of March 1973 all the US combat troops have been withdrawn.

[wdsf5193]

During 11 days in December 1972 the 'Christmas Bombing' campaign sees 129 B52 bombers drop 40,000 tons of ordnance in what is said to be the largest raids of their type in history. The North Vietnamese return to the negotiating table and the bombing is stopped.

[wdsf5193]

An agreement on the terms for peace is reached between North Vietnam and the US in October 1972. However, when South Vietnam refuses to believe that the North is sincere, the peace negotiations falter.

President Nixon orders massive night-time bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong to demonstrate the resolve of the US and appease the doubters in the South.

[AboutFoxy]

My country

[llangennith]

Any chance that the BBC will acknowlledge it's Marxist bias?

[de0n91]

VC speak in a different accent you fool! At least learn to speak Vietnamese if you thought about winning the war. And it's not nice blowing up people's houses like that you wouldn't kill a VC but create hatred in even South Vietnamese.

Stupid!

[sabu85]

the americans lost the war because they didn't have marx's das kapital, the quran and the ak47. fact.

[rosemarie443]

@sabu85 the Americans did not loose the war we just finally got sick of it and brought our men home which is what we should do now. Just bring ever American home and let the forgein world fight for themselves. if they do not like us then why should we be there, and also stop sending them money. then you will really hear them cry, for help

[sabu85]

@rosemarie443 i know, i was just kidding :)

[nhoxt1712]

CHINA is the dog, and Vietnamese will destroy CHINA, I swear that,sorry about my bad English

[gietchotau]

thắng lằm vua thua làm giặt

[troytblevins]

larry flynt sent cincinnati homes a 12 page pamplet called war it will give you some thing to think about, what all them young american kids went through, i warn you it is very gross and shows dead american soldiers, larry flynt did this when hamilton county ,was trying to hang .

[Psychatron]

@ 3:50 is that forrest Gump??

[Brikjard]

7:00 AR-14?

[prettyknight9285]

vietcong was the south vietnamese rebels , vietminh was the north vietnamese forces.

the american let the south vietnamese created a government so bad that their own people , the south vietnamese rebel against south vietnam government .

communism or democracy are not races of people , it 's an idea , and the U.S. failed to deliver democracy into south vietnam , and united the south vietnamese .

[sanjose42000]

@prettyknight9285

you are right about the "Vietcong and Vietminh"...but they are all controlled by the CCCP and CHINA so i don't see the different...communist is communist, so they were not fighting for their country but for an ideology.

[solarwriter]

@sanjose42000  you are a moron....even McNamara conceded that was bullshit !

[sanjose42000]

@solarwriter

may be i am, but i am not taking as it appear to be...

[nhoxt1712]

@sanjose42000 aha, CCCP and CHINA can't control Vietcong, remember 1979 War

[sanjose42000]

@nhoxt1712

that war happened because the Vietnamese was invaded Cambodia, and Cambodia was the "dog" of China...think about it, i was helping you to win the war and now you kicked my "dog"....that was happened in 1979....

[de0n91]

@nhoxt1712 The war in 1979 doesn't say anything. VC already took control of the whole country so who the hell need any helps from China anymore? What's the point of taking over the South to lose the North?

[XXXCompAssesXXX]

Thanks for putting this clip up! I have to do a project for Vietnam in which I have to find a TV coverage of the war, and wright about what is going on in the video! Thank you very much!

[jsbach15]

The majority of drafted men were between the ages of 18 to 22.

[am1966ath]

@wogbasha They are english, they speak the queens english, language of Shakespear and Oscar Wilde..niot some ugly american or australian drawl.

[nigel65deck]

@am1966ath oh please!I will take an Arthur Miller slang,....Westside story street talk... CBGB's smart ass ....Rapper Delight over any of that raspy old babble any day.

[am1966ath]

@nigel65deck each languge reflects its time....this newsreel is nearly 50years old..they talk differently today.

But this was long before any CNN breaking news..it took time to travel and for information to travel the world.

[wdsf5193]

Vietcongs love to hide like rats. Vietcongs invaded Cambodia in 1979 and stayed until UN made them left in 1990. But, many of them just changed only uniforms to civilian clothes and kept hiding in Cambodia. There are about 2 millions viets HIDING in Cambodia right now. JUST LIKE I SAID, VIETCONGS LOVE TO HIDE.

[DsKARteam]

@wdsf5193 really? Cambodia send troops on to VN, because the US TOLD them to and well...VN replies. Cambodia deserve it.

[wdsf5193]

@DsKARteam By July 1964 the number of US military personnel in Vietnam has reached 16,000. In August US President Johnson approves air strikes against North Vietnamese naval bases in retaliation for an alleged attack on two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the north coast of Vietnam.

In October the Soviet Union promises to provide military support for North Vietnam. The aid will amount to several hundred million dollars and include surface-to-air missiles.

[Noid111]

4.25 - "Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die..." Airborne song. Also in Band of Brothers.

[linuxpowerification]

whats the real name of this doc?

[globe255]

The guy at 6:55 seems to be a real killer. Let me guess if he is alive now, im sure i can find him in the prison.

[runrunforest1]

what the hell with "you VC you VC you VC?" No wonder the american couldn't never wipe out the Viet Cong, they practically have no idea how to identify a VC at all.

[xStalkerxx]

great documentary! thanks for posting.

[EbClectic]

thanks. love that kind of "recent" history type stuff

[aryanscience]

Obama loves watching these old clips..He breaks out in glee everytime he sees a white Christian killed or tortured..

[loyaldude10]

@aryanscience ---and just where do u get that info from?

[historyisknowledge]

All of these people had died because of two untried man ideas-Capitalism and Communisim. Communism has had a long history of death surrounding it even excluding vietnam just as capitalism has. Well, England gave us capitalism, who gave us communism?

[SH67]

@historyisknowledge Millions (?) of Viatnemese died "for the freedom" because their thinking was around level of ape. Communism was just a frame of reference which sounded nice and justified any sacrifice at all.

[50poiuyt]

the hatred of Vienamese to foreign invaders was reason of the loss of Yanks and every aggressor

[Tien1185]

Yankees never worked hard on the rice field, the VC had worked hard so they wound'nt complained about the jungle than Americans. Living in American Dreams is spoiled then livin in Vietnamese Dreams!!!

[am1966ath]

@Tien1185 the US could nuke Vietnam back to the stone age if they wanted. The vietcong had terrible losses and also executed many vietnamese, but then of course, ABC-news weren t present to film it.

[endracismguy]

@am1966ath dont justify your shit moron

[am1966ath]

@endracismguy there is no need to be rude but I understand from your language that you are not civilized but some kind of sub human who was never educated, nor that you are used to interaction with normal people.

[DsKARteam]

@am1966ath of course, or US will be listed in list of crimes against humanity.

[am1966ath]

@DsKARteam the

[am1966ath]

@DsKARteam the tv pictures of american and british tv teams say more than a 1000 words..the tv pictures condemmed the US...there is very little tv footage of what the VC or Uncle Ho was doing, therefore western hippies loved North vietnam and uncle Ho, not reflecting on the gennocidal DNA that exists in all communist movements and takes place outside of tv cameras..the communists are not so stupid as the americans so they show their crime live on tv.

[DsKARteam]

@am1966ath uh...that's what I'm saying=)

[sexymalcom1970]

the vietcong have been here 10 years the US for 3 hours. In that short period a civilian village is destroyed, this is evidence of how the hearts and minds battle was lost and eventually the war

[Lachausis]

@sexymalcom1970 Well, as long as this village supported VC, the communists let it be. Hmong weren't that lucky.

But I agree Americans totally failed the hearts and minds policy. And many officers had no understanding of Vietnamese culture, starting from the high command.

[ctenar1970]

Yanks are the most hated nation in the world.

[zzzpqd]

@ctenar1970 Prove it.

[maddingo12]

This is exactly why reporters are not allowed to shoot anything they want during wars anymore. The Americans learned their lesson after the end of Vietnam and that huge protest movement. Now, reporters can't even take shots of the caskets of returning dead soldiers. Democracies tend to have a weak stomach for this kind of thing.

[PrometheanRunGood]

Yet you Americans get on everyone else's case about controlling media in the same way. Hypocrites, I think so.

[cdwordsworth26]

sophisticated interrogation techniques.

"You VC? , you VC?!, you VC?!!

[saxokobe]

kinda cracked myself when those cows were running away, but it 's kinda cruel cause all those food were lost and they probably can't even get their stuff back....

[Tails137]

Thanks for posting this. The UK really is the high mark for war coverage. They seem to be born with objectivity.

[EbClectic]

@Tails137

after running an empire themselves ;-)

[fambothexterminator]

Watching this, one can't help noticing the youth from these American soldiers; to see such young men marched and died in battlefieds in foreign lands is so sad...

[Vicballo]

Well, I would suggest not to send US troops to foreign countries... and by the way it is also sad to see that so many unguilty civilists were killed by american bombs. Hope you think the same...

[bupez1]

@fambothexterminator my father was one of those men. he said it was sick, and when marching he noticed the man to his left was 17 years old!

[BoundaryRoads]

The Beatles song, Ticket To Ride, reminds me of the beginnings of the Vietnam war.

I think thats because the news of the war began about the same time that song hit the charts.

[patsyd80]

very interesting.

[hungvan]

yeah, so much for freedom and democracy - came over and moved everyone against their will to a camp.