The Weight of Memory (Explicit Language Version)
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.
Episodes
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Riding the Tiger (Explicit Language Version)
S1 E22 - 1h 26m
President Kennedy inspires idealistic young Americans to serve their country and wrestles with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds.
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Riding the Tiger (Vietnamese Subtitles)
S1 E12 - 1h 25m
President Kennedy inspires idealistic young Americans to serve their country and wrestles with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963)
S1 E2 - 1h 26m
President Kennedy inspires idealistic young Americans to serve their country and wrestles with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds.
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Déjà Vu (Explicit Language Version)
S1 E21 - 1h 25m
After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem’s untested regime in the south.
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Déjà Vu (Vietnamese Subtitles)
S1 E11 - 1h 24m
After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem’s untested regime in the south.
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Déjà Vu (1858-1961)
S1 E1 - 1h 25m
After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.
Extras + Features
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A Marine Comes Home
S1 E9 - 1m 50s
A Marine describes his heartbreak at returning home to face angry protesters.
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Quang Ngai
S1 E8 - 1m 15s
A GI talks about the danger of landmines and the courage it took just to walk in Vietnam.
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Men Like This
S1 E7 - 1m 14s
A decorated Army veteran recalls the courage and loyalty he observed from young men serving in the Vietnam War.
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Protests in Chicago, 1968
S1 E7 - 1m 54s
A journalist describes the scene of a violent clash between police and student protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Saigon During Tet
S1 E6 - 46s
During the Tet Offensive, Duong Van Mai Elliott visits her family in South Vietnam. She remembers their fear that Viet Cong forces could be hiding nearby.
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LBJ Criticizes the Media
S1 E6 - 1m 25s
In a taped conversation between President Johnson and Jack Horner of the Washington Star, the president criticizes the media.
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Soldiers Adapt
S1 E5 - 1m 13s
A Marine explains that soldiers have to adapt to the atrocities of war.
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Understanding the Enemy
S1 E4 - 2m 56s
Duong Van Mai Elliott recalls her experiences researching communists in Vietnam for the RAND corporation.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
S1 E4 - 1m 20s
A Vietnamese woman recalls her efforts as a youth volunteer with other women on the Ho Chi Minh trail to keep roads open, despite harsh conditions and constant bombings.
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New York City March, 1967
S1 E4 - 1m 24s
An antiwar activist recalls a large protest march in New York City, where Martin Luther King, Jr., called for an end to the bombing.
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Losses in His Family
S1 E4 - 57s
A Viet Cong soldier recalls losing several family members in the war. And yet many young people, even in his family, still joined the resistance.
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Humanity
S1 E4 - 55s
A Viet Cong soldier realizes his American enemies, like his own countrymen, have a profound sense of humanity.
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