Weave Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Anyone else watching? I loved their series on WWII last season. I'm watching the 1st episode now. Great footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Anyone else watching? I loved their series on WWII last season. I'm watching the 1st episode now. Great footage. Thanks. I'll watch even though it will make me angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Backyard Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Thanks. I'll watch even though it will make me angry I don't have cable, but I was planning on watching it as soon as it was posted on History.com. But tonight, I watched some clips on the website, and I don't know if I am going to be able to handle the production of this particular doc. Too much dramatic music takes away from it for me. The quintessential Vietnam Doc for me is WGBH's Vietnam: A Television History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Thanks. I'll watch even though it will make me angry I won't watch for the same reason. Funny how that works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I don't have cable, but I was planning on watching it as soon as it was posted on History.com. But tonight, I watched some clips on the website, and I don't know if I am going to be able to handle the production of this particular doc. Too much dramatic music takes away from it for me. The quintessential Vietnam Doc for me is WGBH's Vietnam: A Television History. This is pretty good, too. I'm very families with the WGBH series, simply excellent. "Vietnam, the Ten Thousand Day War" is one I believe I have also watched years ago?? I have the book but the tv series was different as I remember. talked about how the vets were treated after the war. Tom Cruise was part of a fantastic movie on Nam that was so good, so sad and so infuriating. Born on the fourth of july. Cruise was a ctually decent in it, but it was well done, imo. That f'n war was just so maddening and crazy. The politicians are to blame, democracy failed, the people failed, just a horrible mistake with blame all around, deems, relive, communique, French, etc., etc,.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I won't watch for the same reason. Funny how that works. I totally understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Backyard Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I won't watch for the same reason. Funny how that works. I was born in 1980. My interest in the history of the Vietnam war comes from trying to understand what directly proceeded (and influenced) the times I was born and raised in. I even took it so far as to spend a month in Vietnam two years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sauve28 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I was born in 1980. My interest in the history of the Vietnam war comes from trying to understand what directly proceeded (and influenced) the times I was born and raised in. I even took it so far as to spend a month in Vietnam two years ago. I've always wanted to go there. That's so cool you went. I was born on the day that Martin Luther King came out against the war with his speech about how the "promises of the great society have been squandered on the fields of Vietnam..." or words to that affect. Talk to young people today and they think the 60''s were all happy music and pot smoking! Gees!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samothyev Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 As soon as I saw this post last night I turned it on. Interesting to know how the media impacted the US citizens back in the US. Bad time in our history for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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