What I miss in many documentaries is to hear how Vietnamese people who fought in the war look upon it now. What are their perceptions about the war.
For instance the effect of Agent Orange can almost be compared to the effects of the nuclear bomb in Japan. It still has consequences for people today, children born with abnormalities. But who wants to hear this?
It's many years since I've seen it, but I seem to remember that it presents the war in an unbiased fashion. It was a Canadian production, NOT American, and I think it was more concerned with straight facts and information that forming any kind of opinion.
Having said that, it's been 25 years (at least) since I saw it but I'd love to see it again!
To some extent. Not as much as it should, but probably more than any other Western documentary on the Vietnam War does. The series really does try to be unbiased and does a great job at it but it didn't interview enough people from the communist side. Most of the interviewees were American, with some South Vietnamese. Very few North Vietnamese/Viet Cong. But again, still better in this respect than probably any other Western documentary on this subject.
"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."
Mao
I've seen a lot of them, and this is one of the most unbiased Vietnam documentaries. As far as people always asking about North Vietnams side of the story they still to this day keep there numbers dead and wounded a secret. And when are interviewed they seem to be half truths. Like one NVA General who was interviewed said the POW's were never tortured, really!!! They never want to talk about the atrocities they committed during and after the war, they just want history to remember the things the "imperialist Americans" did. I'd love to hear a honest account of what they did from them.
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