vietnam war

Madame Ngo Dinh is a former first lady of South Vietnam. In 1963, at the height of her fame and influence, she was the most powerful woman in Asia and she was compared to Lucrezia Borgia. Her reputation as the Dragon Lady brought her the most attention. Her cruel remarks regarding events in Vietnam soon became a symbol of everything wrong with American involvement in the Vietnam War. She faded from public view after November 1963 when her husband Ngo Dinh Nhu, and his brother, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, were killed in a coup sanctioned and supported by the U.S. government. Plenty of books have established the overthrow of the Ngo brothers as pivotal in the American buildup to war in Vietnam. But Madam Nhu's role has been largely overlooked. How did a woman who was not yet forty years old, barely five feet tall in heels, come to command the full attention of a superpower like America and embroil the United States in a conflict that would last another decade and take millions of lives? Madame Nhu had had a direct hand in shaping history. Her silence had stretched for decades. Although she was rumored to be living in Rome, the author had reason to think she was now in Paris. She set about finding her to see first, if Madame Nhu was still alive, and second, to hear her tell her own story.

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.

To protest or remain silent. To face jail or possible death. To desert or enlist. Retrace the divergent roads Americans took during the Vietnam War and where those roads led them in this powerful two-part series.

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.

Essays by renowned scholars, primary source documents, photographic and drawn images, maps, tables, audio recordings, and archival film footage provide students with in-depth access to historical records and commentary.

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.

Elizabeth Bryant's search for the original owner of an antique doll she purchased for her soldier father who is about to ship out to Afghanistan is interwoven with the doll's journey through various conflicts since World War I.

An unconventional, un-heroic, and unapologetic memoir from one man's Vietnam War. He did not slog on midnight patrols through Viet Cong tunnels or rice paddies studded with booby traps. He spent his time behind the lines, mostly behind a desk. He spent a year arresting and investigating the men who endangered the lives of their fellow soldiers, as well as themselves, by their unrestrained drug use. While doing his job he pursued a life of perfect hedonism, indulging in many of life's pleasures far from his roots on a farm in southwestern North Dakota.