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The Vietnam War
The Weight of Memory (Vietnamese Subtitles)
Season 1
Episode 20
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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1:57:25
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
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1:57:55
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
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1:26:27
As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
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1:25:20
After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.