1961-1975

Easily the most timely and resonant film about the soldiers on the front lines of antiwar resistance, the award-winning breakout theatrical film tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who helped force the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War.

Down a thousand miles of trail the enemy came. The Tet Offensive was about to explode.

In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th cavalry, under the cammand of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.

Vietnam illustrates several phases of a conflict that lasted many years - from the French struggle against the Communist Viet Minh in the 1950's to the start of Paris peace negotiations in 1968.

Examines the groundbreaking Nuremberg Trials. Beginning with Vietnam's My Lai Massacre , the video reviews the disputed conviction of Lt. William Calley, then explores the heated trial of concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk.

In the turbulence of the late 1960s, while his father is serving as a Marine officer in Vietnam, seventeen-year-old Jonas falls in love with a free-spirited flower child active in the peace movement and begins to question his own attitude toward the Vietnam War.