Vietnamese Films

Convention where South Vietnamese Army personnel gather and honor those who had passed away.

Opening ceremony of the Statue of Honorable Vietnamese and American soldiers in Westminster.

Film shows the attitudes of Vietnamese Americans living in Phoenix, Arizona and their struggles to install a memorial to the soldiers, both American and Vietnamese, who fought in the Vietnamese war. Also, included is a brief history of Vietnam, including the events leading up to the Vietnamese conflict and the aftermath of the war.

A documentary produced in Vietnam. Reflecting the view of Communists in the war and its strategy employed. The support of some of the rural people in the South to the Communist cause.

Documentary film made by the General Directorate of Psychologial Warfare of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on the victory of the Tet Mau Than Offensive.

On the Vietnamese Conflict and the Republic of Vietnam. In Vietnamese. Subject: Vietnam --Armed Forces --History.

Documentary about the appreciative feelings that the Vietnamese community living in Westminster, California have towards the Vietnam veterans (whom they consider heroes). Film shows the dedication ceremony of the Vietnam War Memorial in Westminster, California. Also presented are video clips from the Vietnam war showing Vietnamese and American soldiers, together, fighting the North Vietnamese.

Documentary about the famous battles during the Vietnam War and the heroes who fought to the last minute of the war by the South Vietnam Army. In Vietnamese.

Documentary film on the history of Vietnam’s war. Subject(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) --History --1858-1945, Vietnam --History --1858-1945.

Vietnamese account on the incident of My Lai.

Follow a delegation of Vietnamese boat people and visit the refugee camps at Bidong, Malaysia, where they stayed for months right after fleeing Vietnam. In Vietnamese.

An inside look at the Vietnam War protest staged during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The film is designed to show the movement's actions and goals during the chaotic days of the protests. The footage shot during the protests and the narration recounts the marches, concerts, speeches held during the Democratic Convention; and the Chicago Police and the National Guard's reaction to the demonstrations, and the protester's response to the Police.

Detailed eyewitness account of one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Rights/Vietnam era, held at Columbia University in April, 1968. Protesting against university expansion into neighboring communities and the university’s role as a Harlem slumlord, students occupied five university buildings for five days, until police evicted them in an extraordinary display of force.

A comprehensive look at the protest movements against the Vietnam Conflict and how U.S. foreign policy and values at home were challenged and changed by the anti-war movement. The time-period is chronicled using a powerful combination of rare archival footage and interviews with students, community leaders, Vietnam veterans, and participants from all points of view.

An interview with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel given shortly before his death in 1972. He discusses his philosophy of God and his involvement in social and political causes. Rabbi Heschel, a refugee from Germany who became professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary, combined deep scholarship with a strong moral passion. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and opposed the Vietnam War.

More than a dozen northeast Ohio men and women share their first-hand experience of battle and how it has shaped their lives. This enlightening look into the lives of U.S. veterans is shared against a backdrop of footage, featuring scenes of war, airplanes, naval vessels, veterans' cemeteries, and newspaper headlines. The program also features an interview with Retired General Norman Schwarzkopf.

More than 100,000 children were born to American soldiers and Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War. Because of their appearance, these Amerasians became outcasts from society. When the U.S. Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1987, those children who could prove their paternity were given the opportunity to move to the United States. In this documentary, Amerasians discuss the challenges they faced before leaving Vietnam and after arriving in America.

Filmed in both Vietnam and the US, this documentary showcases a remarkable exhibition of paintings by veterans of the Indochina War. Footage of the paintings is intercut with Vietnamese and American archival footage of the war, as well as interviews with participating artists, historians, scholars, and veterans from both sides. Art, Vietnamese --Exhibitions.
Art, Modern --20th century --Vietnam --Exhibitions.

Important turning point in the Vietnamese Revolutionary War - Prelude to the Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954. Indochinese War, 1946-1954. Vietnam --History --1945-1975.

Between January 21 - March 31, 1968 one of the most bitterly fought and highly publicized battles of the Vietnam war took place in the small valley of Khe Sanh in the northwest corner of Vietnam. For 70 days and nights a group of 6,000 Marines and Allied troops held out against a besieging force of 20,000 North Vietnamese. In telling the story of Khe Sanh, the importance of the outpost to the U.S. command is evaluated and its defense is given historical perspective.

Vietnam has been divided since the end of French colonial rule. The North is run by communists, the South by anti-Communists. Ignoring warnings against involvement in a national struggle, the United States commits its armed forces. American protests against the war mount. The United States realizes this is not a war it can win. (Also on this tape: "Cuba: 1959-1962" and "Mad: 1960-1972"). Part of the Cold War film series.

A discussion between President Lyndon Johnson and AFL-CIO President George Meany on a wide range of topics including federal aid to education, federal health care, unemployment, law and order, civil rights, housing, and the Vietnam War. Demonstrates President Johnson's commitment to end the Vietnam War with an honorable peace.

The French general expected to defeat Ho's rag-tag Vietminh guerrillas easily, but after eight years of fighting and $2.5 billion in U.S. aid, the French lost a crucial battle at Dien Bien Phu — and with it their Asian Empire. Volume 1 in this 7 volume series on the Vietnam War. A detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues.

The story of the North Vietnamese combat cameramen who filmed the Indo-Chinese and Vietnam Wars and founded Vietnamese cinema. They describe the hardship and fear they faced in combat and during American bombings. They also discuss their regrets. Their films give the impression that everything was easy. They didn’t film enough of the hard daily life and regret the many "heroic deaths that were not filmed." In French, Vietnamese, and English.

An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Part one: Fragile hands: 1: From Vietnam to Che’s death ; 2: May 1968 and all that -- Part two: Severed hands: 1: From the Prague spring to the so-called "Union of the Left " in France ; 2: From Chile to - to what?

Powerful and excruciating examination of the American consciousness that led to U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese Conflict. Includes interviews with American Vietnam veterans, U.S. political leaders, anti-war activists, and Vietnamese leaders and civilians. Exposes the nature of war, politics, human nature and ideals. Directed by Peter Davis. Highest awards, including an Academy Award.

Biography of Ho Chi Minh, including newsreel footage and interviews with his contemporaries. Covers his founding of the Indochinese Communist Party, his learning the techniques of guerilla warfare from Mao Tse Tung, and his military successes against Japanese, French, and American forces.

Last report of one of the great combat correspondents of the Vietnamese Conflict, Bernard Fall. Basing his observations on his fourteen years experience in Vietnam, Fall discusses the nature of the insurgency and the theory of massive firepower, and tries to outline practical solutions to the war. In the midst of the broadcast, Fall steps on a landmine and is killed.

Vietnam is in the Soviet orbit, poorer than ever, at war on two fronts; America's legacy includes more than 500,000 refugees, 2.5 million Vietnam veterans and some questions that won't go away. Volume 7, the final volume in this 7 volume series on the Vietnam War. A detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues. The series offers an analysis of the costs and consequences of this.

Reveals the origins of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and tells the story of its 21 year old creator, a Yale architecture student. Lin’s plan was selected from over 1,000 different designs. And what began as one of the country’s most bitterly disputed monuments became one of the world’s most inspirational and frequently visited memorials.

Doan Hoang’s family was on the last civilian helicopter out of the country at the end of the war. 25 years later, she sets out to uncover their story. The film follows her family as they return to Vietnam after decades of exile, where her father, a former South Vietnamese major, meets his brothers again to confront their political differences. Meanwhile, Hoang tries to reconcile her own difficult past with her half sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape.

A documentary film that interviews American pilots who became prisoners of war in Vietnam and shows footage of the prison camps and captured prisoners.

Former officers in the South Vietnam Army talk about "...the outcome of the war, relationship between South Vietnamese and American soldiers, and the post-1975 experiences of those officers and others..." Vietnam (Republic) --Armed Forces --Officers --Interviews.

Former President Richard Nixon discusses the presidency from the perspective of his long career in public service. Covers the practical handicaps of divided government, secret diplomacy and covert operations, Presidential campaigning, and relations with the media. Also examines the War Powers Resolution and other Congressional limitations upon the President's conduct in the context of the Vietnam Conflict and the Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1973.

Through interviews with American Indian veterans of the Vietnam War, this program looks at their problems, concerns, and experiences against the background of their culture. Examines, from different perspectives, the role and therapeutic value of traditional Indian ceremonies.

The untold story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war in Vietnam. This movie profiles an event that profoundly impacted American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from memory.

Presents the experiences of five Chicano Vietnam War veterans, all of whom grew up in Corcoran, California.

Five people from a small area of rural Illinois share their experiences during the height of America’s involvement in the Vietnam war in 1968. Features 3 soldiers, a radio pioneer, and a nurse.

Bill Moyers examines how deception has influenced major events in the recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind. Examines the common roots of lies at home and in the Oval Office, and explores events such as Watergate, the Vietnamese Conflict, and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, revealing the pressures which led to the denial of truth and the distortion of reality.

Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.

Biographical documentary about the personal life and career of John Lennon. Includes information about political views and activities related to the Vietnam War.
Lennon, John, 1940-1980.
Lennon, John, 1940-1980 --Political activity.

Examines the modern history of Vietnam, from French involvement to the Vietnam War, along with reflections on the brutality of war. Includes interviews of participants and observers.

Vietnam War veterans recount the experiences they had in combat.

This film examines Hollywood’s changing representation of the Vietnam War. Movies such as “Platoon” and “Hanoi Hilton” provide a more realistic portrayal than earlier films do. Includes interviews with filmmakers, Vietnam veterans, and war correspondents.

David Lamb explores the stories of what happened to six Vietnamese since the Vietnamese conflict that ended in 1975.

The Vietnam War is used as subject matter to stimulate an intellectual exercise -- the intelligent appraisal of media arguments. The goal is to make students aware of the reality and to foster the critical faculties students need for intelligent appraisal of media arguments. The program offers two distinct interpretations of the war, each by an authoritative (but fictitious) "historian." The presentations are consciously biased and differences of opinion are not resolved.

Series broadcast on the program, American experience. disc 1. Roots of a war, 1945-1953 ; America’s Mandarin, 1954-1963 -- disc 2. LBJ goes to war, 1964-1965 ; America takes charge, 1965-1967 ; America’s enemy, 1954-1967 -- disc 3. Tet 1968 ; Vietnamizing the war, 1968-1973 ; Cambodia and Laos -- disc 4. "Peace is at hand," 1968-1973 ; Homefront USA ; The end of the tunnel, 1973-1975.

Drawing upon the resources of the CBS News Archives, the history of the Vietnamese conflict is traced from the United States first tentative steps into the morass of Southeast Asia, through the desperate final moments of the escape from the besieged city of Da Nang.

The program begins in 1941 with Ho Chi Minh's U.S.-backed harassment of Japanese forces; it covers the war with the French; the division of Indochina; the partitioning of Vietnam; the Geneva Conference; the unraveling of the South Vietnamese government and the arrival of American advisors; the death of Ho and the role of Prince Sihanouk and Cambodia. It follows the escalation of war, the evacuation of American forces, and the North's efforts to remove all traces of the South Vietnamese regime.

In 1965, the villagers of one district in North Vietnam found themselves on the frontlines of an increasingly brutal war. Rather than flee their ancestral village, they dug a series of tunnels and moved their entire communities underground. Through archival footage and interviews with tunnelers, a female guerilla commander, an American POW held in the tunnels, and an American Air Force historian, we are transported into this subterranean world.

Advocates of the theories of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung discuss his enduring influence on modern life. Analyst John Beebe dissects a key scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" in Jungian terms, and Dr. Harry Wilmar explains his research into the "healing nightmares" of Vietnam veterans.

A historical look at the French, U.S., and other nations' occupation of Vietnam. The U.S. involvement is examined as a patriotic act to protect freedom — "something we must fight for at any cost." The program tries to answer why the U.S. sent its young men to fight and suffer in Vietnam. (Also on this tape: "Battle of Khe Sanh")

Filmmaker Tiana left Vietnam as a child, with her family, in 1966. She grew up American and became a B-movie actress in Hollywood. She wanted to return to Vietnam and retrace her family history. She proceeded to make many trips back and to produce this film about what she discovered in the country and herself. She meets her family, Amerasians left behind by their GI fathers, members of the new generation of Vietnamese, and finally travels to Hanoi where she meets the former enemy.

Focuses on Kim Phuc, who, as a small girl in 1972 became a symbol of wartime barbarity when her fleeing, napalm-seared figure was caught on newsreel camera. Returns to her village to reconstruct her story of youthful suffering and its aftermath.

Following a battle in Vietnam, American soldier Paul Reed found a diary of a North Vietnamese soldier he presumed was killed. When he learned years later that the Vietnamese soldier was still alive, he returned to Vietnam to meet him and return the diary. Film documents the emotional meeting of these two former enemies, who revisit their field of battle to reflect on the war and its impact on their lives.

Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, children at the Tu Du Hospital in Saigon are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. In this documentary, we meet several who are plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 U.S. chemical companies. Attorneys, activists, scientists, and a military historian take us to a new battlefield.

This video tells the compelling story of PeaceTrees Vietnam: former enemies working together clearing landmines, planting trees and creating the Friendship Forest Park on one of the "fieriest battlegrounds of the Vietnam War."

American journalist after the war returns to Vietnam after the war and witnesses the changes.

Filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn ventures to Vietnam twenty years after her husband was killed in a mortar attack. She finds a mesmerizing landscape filled with the psychic remnants of war. She talks to those on all sides of the struggle, discovering a common bond in loss and ultimately understanding. The film is filled with extraordinary archival footage, visions of modern day Vietnam, and heart-wrenching stories from American and Vietnamese women who lost their husbands to war.

Examines Vietnam and the extensive damage done to its environment and people. Bombing left over 26 million craters and unexploded bombs continue to kill or maim thousands of Vietnamese each year. Use of Agent Orange devastated vast areas of the country's ecosystem and entered the food chain, continuing to cause birth defects and illness. Shows efforts of the Vietnamese to rebuild their country, including reforestation, restocking fish rivers, replacing depleted wildlife, and treating acid soil.

A film about homeless veterans in America, especially those who served in Vietnam and those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film reveals the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight after they come home. Includes the story of Iraq War veteran Herold Noel who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Exposes a failing system and our veterans’ fight for survival after returning home from war.