{"id":15926,"date":"2017-09-13T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=15926"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:02:28","slug":"12-documentaries-vietnam-war-american-homefront","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/12-documentaries-vietnam-war-american-homefront\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Documentaries About the Vietnam War on the American Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, September 17th, PBS will debut the latest project from <strong>Ken Burns<\/strong> and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick: the ten-part, 18-hour series <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/the-vietnam-war\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vietnam War<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Just like Burns and Novick\u2019s previous films <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (about WWII) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prohibition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (about American culture in the 1920s), the new documentary combines a broader historical overview with compelling personal anecdotes, providing both an analysis of a particular moment in time and a remarkable array of small, human stories.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A North Vietnamese soldier laments how the war pitted Vietnamese against each other. Tune in or stream <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VietnamWarPBS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VietnamWarPBS<\/a> Sept 17 8\/7c. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7GXp9DDv4G\">pic.twitter.com\/7GXp9DDv4G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PBS (@PBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PBS\/status\/906215576497864705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vietnam War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the culmination of nearly 50 years\u2019 worth of documentaries about one of the most complicated and difficult chapters in the history of the 20th century. Because the fighting in Vietnam corresponded with the rise of television news and a burgeoning social conscious on college campuses, both the war and the protests against it were extensively covered by every level of media, leaving behind countless hours of footage and reportage for filmmakers to pick through as they\u2019ve attempted to understand what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Lens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has aired several of those documentaries over the years, several of which have focused on the particulars of what was going in America while the troops were overseas. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/trials-of-muhammad-ali\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trials of Muhammad Ali<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, examines the difficulties the heavyweight boxing champion faced when he refused his draft notice, and how his choice divided and to some extent changed public opinion. Many of the best films about Vietnam aren\u2019t about what happened <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over there<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but rather about how the moral and political implications of the war tore the U.S. apart at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s a dozen of the most interesting \u201chome-front\u201d docs (some from the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Lens <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">roster, some not), divided into three categories, dealing with the protest movement, the politics of the war, and how returning vets and their families coped with the aftermath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In the Streets<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071604\/\"><b><i>Hearts and Minds<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (1974): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Lyndon Johnson famously justified America\u2019s ongoing intervention in Vietnam by saying that the goal was to swat the \u201chearts and minds\u201d of the Vietnamese people away from the Soviet Union\u2019s communist ideals. The brilliance of Peter Davis\u2019s controversial, Oscar-winning cinematic essay <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hearts and Minds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is that if flips LBJ\u2019s agenda, showing instead how nightly news images of combat demoralized U.S. citizens. A kaleidoscopic barrage of images taken from political stump-speeches, protest rallies, high school football celebrations, small-town parades, and frontline fighting, the movie offers a vision of early \u201870s America that digs into the roots of a national crisis of conscience.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hearts and Minds trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcE6CdR60NY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/two-days-in-october\/\"><b><i>Two Days in October<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2005): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intersections of the counterculture and the antiwar movement are often traced back to the San Francisco Bay Area, but as these documentary shows, the University of Wisconsin in Madison was as much of a hotbed of dissent as any campus on the West or East Coast. T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he Peabody-winning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Days in October<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PBS <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Experience<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) contrasts an especially bloody engagement on the One Tranh Stream with a particularly violent protest in Madison that became national news. One film is intensely focused and the other more of a collage, but taken together they map out middle America\u2019s engagement in activism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0905979\/\"><b><i>Chicago 10<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2007)\/<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0343168\/\"><b><i>The Weather Underground<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2010): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To the average American, the young folks who vociferously protested the war in Vietnam formed an indistinguishable hairy mass, sprawling from coast to coast. But when some of the dissenters became infamous \u2014 and when the justice system got a hold of them \u2014 the authorities were goaded by public outrage into attempting to make an example of these hippies. Brett Morgen\u2019s inventive animated documentary <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago 10<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looks back at Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and the other well-known agitators accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Green and Bill Siegel\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Weather Underground<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, meanwhile, talks to the surviving members of a group which set off a series of explosions in federal buildings and banks over a period of several years. Both films are snapshots of angry young men and women, and of the society that hated and feared them. While <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicago 10<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is about the emotions of its moment and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Weather Underground <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is more reflective, both remain relevant to our contentious current age of \u201cresistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Weather Underground - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uiAbHmwIwGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><b>In Washington<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317910\/\"><b><i>The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2003): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the great ironies of the Vietnam War was that it escalated under two consecutive Democratic administrations, forcing pacifist progressives to oppose the kind of politicians they\u2019d ordinarily be voting for. Errol Morris\u2019s Oscar-winning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fog of War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains how this came to be, by letting President Kennedy and President Johnson\u2019s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explain how he went from modernizing industrial manufacturing in the corporate sector to trying to translate his cutting-edge analytical models to foreign policy. The result is an enlightening look at how some smart, well-meaning people led the United States into a military quagmire.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fog of War - Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hcAyzbMvF7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0335507\/\"><b><i>The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (1982): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the \u201860s and \u201870s, CBS News aggressively pursued the craft of documentary journalism while tracking the destructive progress of the war. The network combined both missions in the 1968 Walter Cronkite special <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, Why?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which famously led President Johnson to lament, \u201cIf I\u2019ve lost Cronkite, I\u2019ve lost Middle America.\u201d The military pushed back over a decade later, when Mike Wallace hosted <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Uncounted Enemy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a 90-minute expos\u00e9, alleging that the U.S. Army under the guidance of General William Westmoreland had fudged data to persuade the American people that the war was going well. The documentary provoked a landmark libel suit \u2014 \u201cWestmoreland v. CBS\u201d \u2014 still taught in journalism schools. The film itself (available in pieces on YouTube) is a fascinating document of how the media kept wrestling with Vietnam, and with their own culpability in shaping public opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Wallace discusses &quot;The Uncounted Enemy a Vietnam Deception&quot; - EMMYTVLEGENDS\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lOaexO6EaZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/films\/mostdangerousman\/\"><b><i>The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2009)\/<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/films-streaming-online-black-history-month\/\"><b><i>1971<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2014): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because so many saw the Vietnam War as an urgent moral crisis, they were unafraid to confront the government directly \u2014 and even to break the law \u2014 to put an end to the carnage. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Most Dangerous Man in America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s subject Daniel Ellsberg, and the \u201cCitizens\u2019 Commission to Investigate the FBI\u201d depicted in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1971<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both disseminated confidential files on secret programs, informing the public about off-the-books bombings and unconstitutional surveillance targeting Americans. These films are a celebration of a nation that allows its people the freedom to stand up for what they believe in, and a warning that there\u2019s only so much activism the powers-that-be will tolerate.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Most Dangerous Man in America - Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XwXylIaJ_Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Coming Home<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0204058\/\"><b><i>Winter Soldier<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (1972): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the first major documentaries about the war was produced by a filmmaking collective, who let the men who\u2019d just returned from Vietnam tell stories about the atrocities they\u2019d witnessed. Criticized at the time for being overly sensationalistic \u2014 and for covering a mock war crimes tribunal that the mainstream media largely determined to be insignificant \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has in recent years been reevaluated as an essential record of what the folks who fought the war went through, and what they carried home.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Winter Soldier: Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eIe2LbjFt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/films\/regrettoinform\/\"><b><i>Regret to Inform<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (1998): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Oscar-nominated, Peabody-winning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regret to Inform<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a welcome reminder that there are always multiple \u201chome-fronts\u201d in any war, and that parents and spouses on both sides of the battle-lines suffer life-changing losses. Director Barbara Sonneborn\u2019s husband was killed in action, and as a way of coming to grips with his death, she spent a decade interviewing widows in both Vietnam and the U.S., asking them what it was like for them when they got the news. This film honestly explores the vast human damage left by a geopolitical dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Regret to Inform - Trailer - True Lives - POV 2000 | PBS\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDU-oB5bvlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303281\/\"><b><i>Daughter from Danang<\/i><\/b><\/a><b> (2002): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are few better illustrations of how international conflict rips countries and families apart than this emotionally devastating documentary, following one of the many \u201corphans\u201d who were adopted by American families toward the end of the Vietnam War \u2014 and who later found out that their birth mothers were alive. Estranged from the mom who raised her, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daughter from Danang<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s subject Heidi Bub goes searching for her roots, but is unprepared for the cultural differences between her middle-class suburban southern neighborhood and impoverished rural Asia. As her biological family makes increasing demands on her for money, Bub finds her attitude shifting to be more reflective of U.S. policy toward Vietnam: concerned, but short of the point of real sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daughter From Danang - PREVIEW\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZZ4p3WBTf8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, September 17th, PBS will debut the latest project from Ken Burns and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick: the ten-part, 18-hour series The Vietnam War. 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