PBS - The Vietnam War

[Duman]

Watching PBS series The Vietnam War.

So far I'm impressed with the series. A lot of things I never knew about our involvement and escalation.

There were a lot of complex political things going on in Vietnam before the U.S. became involved.

People in power, from Johnson on down, knew it was a disaster before we had boots on the ground. Nuts.

[USMC88-93]

Anything Ken Burns is involved in is worth watching.

[thvigil11]

Agreed, I think Burns is the best, most even handed documentarian I've ever seen. Been watching the series as well. The mix of history and personal accounts is very well done.

[OtterbatHellcat]

PBS does offer some good programming from time to time. Sometimes the money thing really gets in the way, I've donated...and once you do, they do hound you for a while. At least that's been my experience, perhaps others have different experiences with donating to them.

[Joe_K]

I'm currently watching the second episode. So far so good.

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[ben4372]

I watched the 1st episode. Great story telling. I really like the early back story. It's supposed to be 18hrs. Lots left to see. I've never seen any of his work but heard great things. And a long interview he did talking about Prohibition and taxes, still on my list to watch. Smart, even, logical, and loyal to PBS because they gave him a shot in the begining.

[Gman]

His Civil War series was really good. I also remember watching one about the history of baseball.

[Zundfolge]

I fully expect them to continue the lies that we lost the '68 Tet Offensive and lost the war militarily and not tell the truth that the Democrats handed the Vietnamese people to the commies for the rape/torture/murder fest that followed all because they couldn't stomach the idea of an American military victory and they wanted to rub the GOP's nose in Nixon's defeat.

[BushMasterBoy]

Did they mention the nuclear weapons we used in the war? They were firing nuclear tipped missiles into space to knock out Russian reconnaissance satellites. It was called Program 437. I am betting the results of these operations will never be declassified.

[Bailey Guns]

I fully expect them to continue the lies that we lost the '68 Tet Offensive and lost the war militarily and not tell the truth that the Democrats handed the Vietnamese people to the commies for the rape/torture/murder fest that followed all because they couldn't stomach the idea of an American military victory and they wanted to rub the GOP's nose in Nixon's defeat.

There's no way democrats were gonna let us win that war. Too much political capital to be made. Seeing the results of the war and they way the left and democrats behaved during this time is why I despise the left. That's not to say the cluster fuck that was Viet Nam was solely the fault of democrats...but they bear most of the responsibility.

It's a pretty good series on the war...for some of the footage if nothing else.