Windows to the World:Vietnam (1995)

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Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Black & White, Color, NTSC
• ASIN: 6303649505

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Raising the Bamboo Curtain: Awakening Burma/Cambodia and Vietnam (1994)

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• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 2
• ASIN: 6303589820

Outstanding! A real eye opener!, October 21, 1999
Reviewer: DANIELLE SORIA from NY, New York
Martin Sheen does an outstanding job of narrating the journey through Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam. He takes us where we can not go on our own. This documentary is a total eye opener to cultures that we learn little about in the mainstream press. It makes one appreciate what advanced civilizations once existed in this part of the world, and how the people now manage their lives despite oppressive governments. This video is a must see. It will make the viewer want to experience the Burmese and Khmer cultures first hand. Outstanding footage of Angkor Wat is shown.

VIETNAM, CAMBODIA AND BURMA - TOTALLY EXOTIC!, July 18, 1999
Reviewer: A viewer from santa barbara, ca
This video, narrated by Martin Sheen, takes us into closed, hidden Burma to see what the government there doesn't want us to see - a repressed society, and then shows us golden temples, Inle Lake, Pagan, Mandalay, Rangoon - then to Cambodia, just awakening after decades of struggle, then on to Vietnam - opening its doors to commerce. Rick Ray, the director has done a superb job, in National Geographic style - of documenting this journey. Better than the Video Visits or Lonely Planet series - he traveled with only a backpack and shot an intimate portrait of these places and people. It is fascinating - I'll watch it over and over.

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Vietnam-Television History (1983)

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• Color, Closed-captioned, Black & White, Box set, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 7
• ASIN: 6304462522

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Exactly why was America in Vietnam? This remarkable and essential seven-volume series--six years in the making and originally broadcast on public television in 1983--tells the agonizing history of Vietnam's lengthy conflicts with some of the largest powers on Earth. While the primary focus is on the United States' miserable efforts to prop up a porous, anti-Communist government in South Vietnam as a bulwark against Chinese and Soviet expansionism, the series' makers expend no less energy detailing important antecedents to America's intervention. Of vital interest are the first two hours, which tell the compelling story of France's 80-year colonial rule in Southeast Asia and the rise of a European-educated generation of Vietnamese intellectuals turned warriors, chief among them the architect of Vietnam's prolonged revolt against the West, Ho Chi Minh. By the time a viewer comes to understand how and why America shrugged off Vietnamese independence after World War II, it is easier to grasp the tragic context for the disastrous military campaign of the 1960s and '70s. The rest of the series covers the various expansions of America's war in Vietnam through a succession of presidents from Eisenhower to Nixon, carefully explaining the sundry issues that drove each commander-in-chief to send more money, more troops, and more weapons into a seemingly unwinnable and dubious battle. The later volumes take the story into Laos and the horrible siege of Cambodia by a U.S.-supported Khmer Rouge, and examine the history of the antiwar movement in America. No stone is left unturned in this important project, which runs some 13 hours and should be considered one of the most important television series in history. --Tom Keogh

Description
An extraordinary, Emmy award-winning series about the people who masterminded this controversial war, and the Americans and Vietnamese who fought it. Includes 13 videos.

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20th Century with Mike Wallace - Bloody Sieges of Khe Sahn & Con Thien: Miscalculation in Vietnam (1999)

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• Color, NTSC
• ASIN: 0767014235

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Full Circle with Michael Palin: China/Vietnam

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• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• NTSC
• Number of tapes: 2
• ASIN: B00000FBM3

Vietnam, a recent perspective, December 10, 2000
Reviewer: from Arlington, Texas USA
This is tape 2 of the set called Full circle With Michael Palin. Similar to his trains documentary Michael travel around the Pacific Rim. This particular tape covers China/Vietnam & the Philippines. He goes gets down to the personal level on his travels and show places that were not on tape for a long time. A similar documentary but not as sophisticated is Hitchhiking Vietnam: Letters from the Trail ASIN: 6304794495

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Raise The Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma

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• Color
• ASIN: 1879587033

A True Southeast Asia - 5 years Ago, February 3, 2000
Reviewer: A viewer from USA
I am planning a trip to Burma. I found the production quality excellent and the information well presented. I wish that something of this quality was even more recently made. I know Vietnam, having visited in 1999. The Vietnam segment is an excellent view of the people, history, and sights. Much of what is foretold in this 5-year old video is happening today. I can highly recommend this set as part of your learning about these countries.

An Eastern Hemisphere Geography Class 'must see', January 23, 2000
Reviewer: Mark Downing from Woodland Park, Colorado, USA
As a retired Vietnam era military officer and current 8th grade social studies teacher, I found Rick Ray's documentary of Southeast Asia an absolute necessity for my classroom. His evenhanded portrayal of the former and present situation in Vietnam was remarkable. His all too short segment on Cambodia left me and my students wanting to know more. The odd situation in Myanmar (Burma) was treated with realism and sensitivity. What a great introduction to this area of the world for 8th graders. Honest and beautiful, mysterious but real. This movie helped me achieve my goal in the classroom...The students are now asking important questions about these three countries. Thank you.

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Hitchhiking Vietnam: Letters from the Trail (1997)

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Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, NTSC
• ASIN: 6304794495

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Chance rules most of Karin Muller's trip to Vietnam. A first-time filmmaker, the 28-year-old set out on a 7-month solo trip to explore the Ho Chi Minh trail with her trusty Hi-8 camera. Yet her plans go awry, often luckily so, as she discovers early on when she learns that the bus she missed by moments crashed, killing most of its passengers. Later, a washed out bridge forces her to abandon her original plans, and she lets much of her trip be determined by the people she meets.

Hitchhiking Vietnam is narrated partially by the letters she wrote home to her mother, but she also shows us "what I didn't tell my mother I was up to." Hitchhiking with soldiers, riding a motorbike, driving a train are just a few of her adventures. This is not a travel guide; rather, it is video memoir, a visual diary of her trip abroad. Thus, while we get plenty of incredible footage of scenery and locals, we are often treated to trite and judgmental narration (about one woman she comments, "She was dying of tuberculosis, but the real evil was the brown paste in her hand: [long dramatic pause] opium"). If you can move beyond this, though, and accept that this is Muller's personal account and opinions, the story and footage are inspiring. She has successfully managed to pack her seven-months into this compact and well-edited hour-long documentary about traveling off the beaten path. --Jenny Brown

Description
Have you ever dreamed of escaping it all? Karin Muller did. The 28-year-old former management consultant takes a fascinating solo trek through an enchanted Vietnam far off the tourist map, from the hustling back streets of Saigon and Hanoi to a remote Hmong tribal mountain village few foreigners have ever seen.

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