- Network: Apple TV
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2025
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With you-are-there immediacy and first-person emotional intimacy, this stirring six-part documentary relives the turbulent era with raw archival footage and dramatic person accounts. [10 Feb - 2 Mar 2025, p.4]
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Despite its compressed format, Vietnam: The War That Changed America has remarkable footage and fascinating interviews with people who had a first-person perspective of what it was like to fight the Vietnam War.
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There are a handful of Vietnamese interviewees, and the extent of the carnage wrought upon the country’s people is touched upon, but the subject matter is the effect the war had on the psyches of US soldiers – and on the mindset of the US itself. This does not, however, make the enterprise worthless. Accept those narrow parameters and the stories it tells are powerful, often stunningly, movingly so. Maybe it’s indictment enough.
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The overall package should be eye-opening for anyone unfamiliar with the society-altering events, though perhaps may seem a bit cursory for history buffs and those of us who watched the war unfold on TV every night. But news footage from across the globe results in fresh-looking viewpoints.