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The Vietnam War
The Weight of Memory (Explicit Language Version)
Season 1
Episode 30
While the Watergate scandal rivets Americans’ attention and forces President Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another in a brutal civil war. When hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops pour into the south, Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses. For the next 40 years, Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for healing and reconciliation.
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1:53:05
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
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1:52:41
Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
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1:51:26
After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, wins the presidency.
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1:28:18
Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
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1:28:48
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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1:57:58
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
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1:58:28
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
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1:26:59
As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
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1:25:51
After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.
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1:50:27
Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans & Vietnamese from all sides seek reconciliation.
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1:52:04
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
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1:51:41
Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.