Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the lib...
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...
President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic...
While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpowe...
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.
Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a net...
American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.
Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.
With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinka...
Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.
Including an interview with Harold Wilson in which the prospect of devaluation of the pound is discussed along with the Vietnam War and un...
This GCSE Bitesize special tells the story of Modern History using archive film and action figures, and shows the horror of medieval surgery...
(1/5) Charles Wheeler looks at how the Vietnam War destroyed President Johnson, and a conspiracy by the Nixon presidential ca...
Documentary looking at the airlift of over one hundred orphans from Saigon in 1975, orchestrated by the editor of the Daily Mai...
Panorama looks at the Vietnam War. Includes an investigation into the attitudes of US citizens to the war and coverage of Sennator Robert Kennedy's sp...
Panorama reports on the Vietnam War.
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