Descriptive Audio: Disrespectful Loyalty (May '70-March '73)
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
Descriptive Audio: Disrespectful Loyalty (May '70-March '73) The Vietnam War
South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. Massive U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected in a landslide, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home – to a bitterly divided country.
About the Program
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses.
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