Assignment in Vietnam BBC 1969
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2019
- In this multi-award winning film, three reporters investigate different aspects of the war in Vietnam. One of the first documentaries to be shot in colour for the BBC's newly formed second channel.
with Mark Frankland, Dick West and Peter Arnett.
I served in the Marine Corps (E-5) during the Vietnam Era and lost a good High School friend September 16, 1970. His name was L/CPL William J. Franklin (0351) from Southgate, Michigan. He was with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines. He succumbed to his wounds from a box mine in the Quang Nam Province, Quassan Valley.. I miss him dearly!! Please be kind to all us veterans and remember them all for their sacrifices!!
My God continue to comfort and keep you..
@@foxtrotbravo2549 Hope you are well and in the upright and thanks so kindly for your comment! Stay strong and push forward! Semper Fi!
god bless you from lancashire , england
@@tracya4087 Your kindness and thoughtfulness is very much appreciated! Wishing you and all of England good health, happiness and and kindness to all. :-)
@@charlesmiddleton3247 thank you ,
This is my amazing Dad’s documentary film made when I was only eight years old. Dad had a natural gift for telling stories through the lens and direction of his work. Miss him deeply.
Please ask your dad who the artist is playing music at 50:36
@@timhawley2332 dad passed very sadly nine years ago now. Still miss him terribly what an amazing man dad that he was. 🙏🏾🦋🙏🏾
@@femiogilvy so sorry to hear that . What amazing memories he left you with.
@@timhawley2332 absolutely and all his films were exceptionally beautifully made. He adopted myself and my twin brother with mum his wife Allegra Taylor while setting up the first Television in Ibadan Nigerian in the early 1960’s
@@timhawley2332 I go under my name FemiTaylor.
I served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. I was sent over in July 1969, just after the moon launch. I was badly wounded by a mortar round on December 14, 1969, one month before my 21st birthday. I got back to the states at the end of January, 1970. Wasn't well enough to get released from army hospital until September, 1970, when I finally became a 'PFC' again. Whenever you hear that 'war is hell', believe it.
The real Vietnam. This is the best period documentary I’ve seen about the Vietnam war. Quality journalism right there. Great work.
Check out some of the reporting from John Pilger
I would recommend John Pilger also, others would be Julian Pettifer and Brian Barron of the BBC, the days when we had quality journalism.
I've read autobiographies of Vietnam vets. People don't realize how arduous it was to be a grunt. 90lbs on your back in searing, boiling heat. Day after day of slogging. Sleeping on the ground in mud and bugs. Sometimes dying of thirst and others soaking wet. 30 days in the bush, then back to base for a few days where you cut down logs, string wire, dig and fill sandbags. That war was HARD labor on top of the fighting.
And all that under frustrating policies from U.S government... makes it double as hard i think.
Fucking idiots led to the slaughter by idiots, Shame.
@@gerardryan4140 Fuck You Ryan. I got drafted and served my country "in the Nam", unlike some of my so called friends who went to Canada. When l got drafted l didn't even know who we were fighting the North or the South. I had to ask somebody at Paris Island.
@@joeconrad729 Sir full respect. I can't even imagine the hell you and the rest went through.
Lost from 167 pounds of muscle to 104 pounds of survival
As a young Brit, the Vietnam war is something I only had a vague knowledge of until recently but now thanks to YT I appreciate that it was the most brutal and difficult war in recent human history and those US servicemen who fought in the field and also some of them who sadly suffered when they got home have my utmost respect and admiration. Just young men in their early 20s who should have been enjoying the best days of their lives were shipped half way across the globe to fight in a another peoples war..and they gave they're all despite not enjoying the full support of their country. Several times whilst watching the accounts of these men I've welled up..God bless them.
The most unnecessary and unjust war in American history!! What had the Vietnamese people done to the U.S. to justify being invaded and terrorized as they were???
@@robertroselle3341
No.
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese asked for help. The US obliged, as in Korea.
North Vietnam surrendered in 1973. The US left. Then North Vietnam decided to invade again 2 years later. South Vietnam asked for the US to help but they said no.
@@heidi7151 north vietnam surrenderd????? That’s new to me. But never 2 old to learn i suppose. Can you send me a link which supports your statement?
@@oanebraaksma9322
Yes, North Vietnam surrendered in January 1973 after the very controversial "Christmas bombings" ordered by Nixon in December 1972. LBJ was given knowledge of the peace agreement days before his death.
North Vietnam agreed to stop the invasion of South Vietnam, withdraw from Laos and Cambodia, allow for elections in South Vietnam, etc. But in 1975, with the US long gone, North Vietnam violated the accords and invaded South Vietnam and beyond.
As for links:
-Christmas bombings, known more technically as Operation Linebacker II which forced North Vietnam to the negotiating table,
-Paris Peace Accords 1973
-Nobel Prizes for Peace to Le Duc Tho & Henry Kissinger
Here in the Colonies we heard about every night on 6:00pm
Nightly National News.
I did my tour of duty in 1971.
It’s crazy how clear this footage is. Makes it seem like it happened so much more recently.
Really?! You think so?! It looks pretty crappy to me considering 2001 a Space Odessey came out the year before this. That film is pristine and holds up to today's CGI. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid came out in '69
Excellent video.....it captured the essence of Viet Nam....My tour in Vietnam was as a combat assault pilot with the Kingsmen/101st division june 69-june 70. It has affected so many of us....Thanks for this documentary.
WELCOME HOME...
I can imagine
john martin what is combat assault pilot
@@chloekit4861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Aviation_Brigade,_101st_Airborne_Division
Why did you go?
Outstanding!
Best I've seen yet. Thank you!
Brilliant doco. Watching a lot of Vietnam ver interviews recently. This has to balance the picture a bit..to show the perspective of average, real Vietnamese. Thank you for the upload.
the interviews are rather scripted
@@dazzelknight Yes, perhaps an agenda was already made...and it was just fulfilling it. Didn't think about that. THere is a lot of guilt about how vets were treated now, and a lot of gushing at 'war heros7 not taking anything away from the horror of those experiences and the pain now felt, but it was good to hear another perspective. Back in 1970, that alternative push back perspective was huge.
Great doc, so human about ordinary Vietnamese lives during the war. The best I have ever seen.. Since the last six years I went a lot of times in this country and I like it, the people more than landscapes (which are beautiful anyway). I have been very moved to watch this one.
Excellent. The best documentary on Vietnamese people during the war. I love that beautiful country and it’s beautiful people. In fact, I’m married to one.
Very Cool...........
I've always loved that part of the world. I always will. This was powerful. What can I say
Love that part of the world? It's a shithole!!!!
@@tbone9603 You think that, and you’re kind of right. However believe me, there are some amazing places in South East Asia.
This is better than most U.S. documentaries. This shows unfiltered opinions.
It was made by the bbc
Now days nearly all reporting is opinion
I remember the news on TV about the Vietnam war. I was young and didn’t take much notice then. This is a riveting documentary.
I have only watched 15 min of this.....from a former combat slick pilot northern I corp ....This is how it was....Thanks for showing how life was for
wow this is so crazy. I served in the Army two deployments to Iraq and see so many similarities in this video to my experience. Military Industrial complex is out of control. My heart goes out to all the innocent people caught up in these illegal wars.
How about the illegal war were fixing to be injected to! Everyone will be invite to another civil war, death and destruction to the max!
War is war! I hate to admit it , but it'sthe old adage in that "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT" for survival ! Hiroshima, Nagasaki , Hamburg , Kiel, Cologne , DRESDEN where in 3 days of incessant bombings at night , and day killed just over a 100,000 German civilians as the same happened to Tokyo , as the same to Atlanta, and Charleston South- Carolina during the American Civil War. General William Tecumseh Sherman said susinctly put it " War is Hell." Yet , man still never learns!
@@charlieneal8253 Have you been drinking?
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My uncle left Ireland and fought in this war , his stories gave me nightmares
Back to Saigon for dinner in a nice restaurant. I could have used some of that. 3rd Force Recon, Dong Ha, Quang Tri 68-69.
LAFOLLETTER not exactly seeing the connection here? The man made a statement about busting his ass in the jungle and how he could’ve used a decent meal, in a nice environment? How does anything you’ve said have to do with that?
According to the BRITISH they had Vietnam under control in 1945 ?...b.s
Marines did the most fighting in nam
Thank you for your service sir!
Welcome home! You should have gotten that back then and not this ignorant cuss making ya'll seem inhuman. It was a disgrace how ya'll were treated.
Great reality as seen through the eyes of someone who has no agenda other than to tell the truth......
Knowledge is different from wisdom. Not all Knowledge leads to wisdom. We must learn from our mistakes. ❤
Interesting documentary
The best thing is listening to the men and women who fought it always fascinating
Great, honest, and objective documentary from the BBC. Free of spin and propaganda, and presenting the conflict from the point of view and experience of both sides especially the Vietnamese people. As always with the BBC, they shoot straight and to the point.
Yep. They used to back in the day..not now I'm afraid
I mean it isn’t unbiased. Within 3 minutes one of the journos says “the Americans will leave soon, and it will be Vietnamese fighting Vietnamese, as it always should have been”
And it’s their film: they chose to say it, and then chose to include it right at the start. That’s opinion journalism no question
Ahhh the days when the BBC was credible. Long gone.
Not anymore sadly became a tory propaganda mouthpiece
Dear Richard, While I have mixed emotions about Peter Arnett I do appreciate him bringing attention to everything our vets had to go through. Thank you for sharing.-Paul
I was in I Corp. Based in Vandergrift combat base. We didn’t have luxuries up north in 1969
Lâu lắm rồi.....rất lâu rồi mới được nhìn lại những hình ảnh xưa chỉ tồn tại trong ký ức . Tôi không hiểu hết tiếng Anh thuyết minh, nhưng những hình ảnh này đã ăn sâu vào tiềm thức của tôi, những hình ảnh mô tả rất thật từ cuộc sống nông thôn cho đến thành thị của miền Nam xưa .
Nhớ Sài gòn hông?
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Biết cái bài hát ở 46:45 không?
Thank you, Richard Taylor for your excellent program. 2Plt, C Co.1-20 11Bde AMERICAL 1971.
Very good BBC docu in the same manner like " the other side of suez" BBC docus are really worth to look at
ALSO BBC EYE AFRICA.
Very interesting. Thanks.
Thank you to all veterans.
I was in the central highlands 4th inf div. In 1969. RIP ARNETT he was right on the money, about the truth!
An excellent documentary done by the BBC during those days of my country at war. Great representation
Những hình ảnh VN xưa thật quý giá. Tôi nhớ quá về ký ức tuổi thơ
Đã về VN chơi, thăm quê chưa?
great film .Very hard to find colour stories like this and all aspects of the war well most of it anyway .Arnett was a well respected journo
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Arnett was a social engineer. He was born in New Zealand and has USA citizenship. He is the worse kind of reporter. He then became a peace activist. I'm a drafted disabled Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. Upon my return from Vietnam, I got a those fancy degrees. I worked in DC for 2 years. All the democRAT people are criminals. This documentary is all bull schitt!
@Holland Karoly Drink some more kool-aid for your thinking. You're right on track to be the sucker of the year. You must eat a lot of rice of your girlfriend's rice bowl. I never said I was a RINO. The jokes on you. Eaglegards ya saps...
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ty, for not playing fortunate son during the helicopter footage
The movie makers dont play that song. There is an "unfortunate son" switch on the helicopters control panel thats plays what you are hearing
Read Dispatches by Michael Herr. It was written by a war correspondent who became addicted to that horror show kept going back over and over. It was, along with "Heart of Darkness" the Novel by Joesph Conrad the basis of Apocalypse Now.
Incredible footage someone had a real good eye.
Takes the good old BBC to give us a sound, unbiased documentary...
You must just be sarcastic. This is about as biased as "reporting" gets.
BBC = Biased Broadcasting Company. Might of been less so back in the day but now they are just a Tory mouthpiece with silver spoons up their arse.
2 BIG THUMBS UP. EXCELLENT PRODUCTION. VISITED VIETNAM TWICE. TERRIBLE WAR.
My dad was a there..1969 Marine Nicholas novellino..
Outstanding film .. All three reporters so well informed, and as history as showed, correct in their conclusions.
Sad thing is .. with the ' imbedded reporters ' the military have dumped on us, we will probably never have that truthful type of reporting again.
With the current conditions in the United States the reporter’s quote makes sense.
“You can’t win political wars with guns.”
Correction, you can’t win a political “war”
Spoobus Boys absolutely it’s hard to kill ideology with bullets
Unfortunately its coming here though. Politicians ruin countries while their citizens die, the politicians fill their own pockets. We as commoners are nothing more than expendable to the rich & powerful
"C" company 1/7 Chu Lai, Phu Bai, 1965-66 Combat Engineer/ Tunnel rat.
dreamstate207 Fake Valor......you peeled potatoes behind the lines
@@richardnixon4345 Silence comrade!
Don't listen to tricky Dick. Well, at least he resumed bombing the ho chi min trail, and strategic targets in N. Vietnam. Should have gone all the way in Cambodia, though. Heartfelt thanks for your service, sir.
@@frankdrebin1023 ya dropped 2.7 million TONS OF BOMBS ON POOR CAMBODIA..
@@michaelheery6303 lol exactly. We were in Cambodia hell they were even trying to flood out the ho chi Minh trail believe it or not, with seed clouding.
Thank you for the upload Richard, this is a brilliant documentary. I only wish I knew who the actress was at 54:15.
Broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 3rd June 1969.
From Hanoi, Vietnam: Many thanks Richard Taylor for an amazing document like this. It funny but true at 8:00: "GI doesn't nkow much about Vietnam and not his fault, usually the only Vietnamese he sees are the ones he's killed....... Even when he does get out when say he gets to Saigon for little fun for some human companionship he sees the worst side of the country ...."
Thanks
Good journalism in this documentary a gem of a reality programme
This Asian Lt. is interesting. He is obviously of Asian descent, is from Hawaii, and talks with a southern accent.
which one is that
5:23. Capt. Harimoto.
Then again at 9:00. Not clear that is him. Not a Hawaii accent, but locals can be great mimics.
He looks of Korean descent.
Harimoto is a Japanese surname.
Did any of the forward operating infantry ever get to use the swimming pools, ice cream parlours, massage?? Or was that mainly the back echelons and desk workers looking after themselves?
"How do you know who's friendly and who's an enemy on the ground" He should have said " Anyone who runs is a VC, anyone who don't run is a well disciplined VC"
That is very true
Followed by get some, get some
Have you shot any women and children
And they whoped yankee ass
IDIOTIC COMMENT. YOU ARE PROBABLY A MORON.
Should pass a law if u want to be in Congress then u are the first to go
love this
Powerful old men sending poor young men off to war. Some things never change.
I was there from May 1969 to July 1969.I served with thev1st Cav. Division til I was wounded in July.Luckily it was a leg wound which was good enough to get me out of Nam.
Amazing documentary. Even more amazing is the underestimation of the enemy on the American part. They say they've learned from their mistakes... yet they made these very same mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq. No surprise they lost all three wars, then.
True words the soliders did not political did pentagon did they should stay out of it let terrorism know they good for information
If you're watching this on a Samsung be grateful the USA saved South Korea.
@@saund102 I'm watching it in a Lenovo and i hope China doesn't decide to kick some American ass other than just economically and cybernetically.
@@Eventual-Visitor That's IBM basically. Their SSD's are Samsung and Intel manufactures everything else.
R.I.P All American , Korean, Australian, and all Allied troops in Vietnam including the Vietnamese. RIP. Long live ROK and USA
On my arrival in Vietnam Jan 1968 I was surprised that villagers chose to ignore us. No welcome cheers, no happy waves. Told they were frightened VC would hurt them if they smiled or waved at us. After a month or so I knew we were not welcome. Their government, the one we supported, was obviously corrupt. Their officers and soldiers were decent but “the head of the fish was rotten”. We won the TET Offensive battle but lost the war in 1968. Excellent documentary.
I have a very vague memory of this being on television in black and white. I remember being shocked at the explosions and the noise of the guns. I was only 2 or 3.
Arnette reported on the first gulf war great journalist
as an ex-army sniper (1968) saw many unforgettable things....
I'm sure you did God Bless you and hope you're well. I'M probably at lestabout 8 or 9 years younger than you because I was in the army in '74 4th division .
Thank you for your service. Where did you serve in Vietnam?
As a Marine Sniper, thank you for your service. My brother was killed in 68 in quang tree prov.
Vietnam. By a North Vietnamese Sniper, I was 9 yrs. old at the time . I hope you killed a lot of those motherfuckers.
@@goutvols103 Indeed , where in Vietnam ? and with who ?
is that right ? id love too hear about it
Peter Arnett went on to become a very well know TV reporter in the USA.
When watching this excellent film, I feel sorry for the innocent civilians, in particular the little kiddies, who were caught between the terror of the VC and coercion of the South Vietnamese government and the Americans, who often could not determine who was friend and who foe.
That reporter is In love ❤️ with that Vietnamese woman.....and so am I !!!! Whew
@54:23sec
Holly shit, that's paul mauriat's Love is Blue playing in the background !!!!!
With Angela Cartwright on the album cover( lost in space)...very rare!
What song did that girl sing at the end? 😢
Love that this doc featured the 187th assault helicopter company. My dads helicopter company. Don't care for the opinions of the journalist.
Sorry about the journos. Saying the Americans shouldn’t be there etc. Opinion/activist journalism, not real journalism
I’m British and the BBC is even worse now tbh
20 yr war 55 to the fall of Saigon 1975.
My uncle Moore was killed in that province in 69, nickname Butch , if any veterans remember him make a comment.
It's amazing how beautiful the country and people are. This certainly isn't the perspective I used to hear on American TV when I was a kid.
Impressive
the soldiers are very lovely
Thanks.
trung thực & tuyệt vời
english please...
So this is where the A-Team got their stock chopper insertion video at the start of the show intro .... cool
Who was the pretty young woman being interviewed? I remember her face as a child. Thanks
she is Kieu Trinh
The guy playing that guitar at 47:09 is amazing.
Whats the song name tho?
The Bravest 19 year Old Men, on Planet Earth..........Step off a Huey into a Firefight.......1969..
Hay có ai làm phụ đề Việt sub hoặc thuyết minh cảm ơn nhiều.
Start at 4:06 if you want to hear some real bullshit. On my very first patrol we fired 105s into a village we couldn't even see. When I asked the bosses how we knew who was being shelled, he looked at me and said, "does it matter". Firing into positions without regard for civilians was done many times. There were also many times when we took casualties because we would not fire into occupied areas. It all depended on who had the radio in their hands. The VC and NVA also killed people who had little to do with the war but to say that our firing into targets that were not confirmed was rare, is just not true.
fuck u
@@JC-il4jf Those that cannot except the truth are the easiest to manipulate. If you can't handle the truth, please continue to live in your fantasy world and get out of the way for those who chose not to.
@themailman43 still doesn't make it right we killed thousands
Daniel Batitsas did you lose a lot of friends in Vietnam
@@chloekit4861 Yes, between the companies I was with in Vietnam and my neighborhood at home. Not only killed, but permanently disabled and psychologically damaged. I don't know how many, I didn't keep count.
My dad was there a Marine...NICHOLAS NOVELLINO 1969..
When has war ever been pretty
And it won't be pretty here on American soil!
our life brothers our song the hill 55 years my brother
a father my war
Peter Arnett was an AWESOME reporter!!
Fico pensando no sofrimento da população pobre vietnamita , crianças, velhos e mulheres.
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BTW, I was 7 years old. Watching this on the news with my family.
and? what else can you recon? (seriously... I remember a lot since I was 3 yrs old... like a particular song=melody on ythe radio, which I was able to find only 40 yrs later on YT!...)... I rememb er news about HaNoi evac...
@@fidziek WELL, old boy. At least our memories are still intact.
And you still remember watching this show after so many yeras? It had to make a real impact on your young mind.
@@Ferda1964 Yeah, It did. Brought up on a diet of John Wayne n Gungho GI`s can do that to a child. And my dad reacting the way adults react. Told me it was real. N seeing a man executed by a shot to the head on teatime tv. Or a Monk burning himself alive. Yeah. Id say it had an effect
@@williamnixon3071 Well yes. You know the Commies eliminated just about all of the Monks and that's why we never saw more of them burning just like we never saw on the TV the very many thousands of South Vietnamese that were massacred by the Reds.
Anyone ever heard of “Combined Action Program” ?
What isn't understood about Ho Chi Minh was that he wasn't so much a communist as a nationalist. He penned a nieve letter to D.D. Eisenhower saying how he admired George Washington and desired national sovereignty and independence from France. The Vietnamese hated the French colonial occupation. So we lost the war when we supported the French.
It was a civil war and the Americans backed a corrupt Roman Catholic dictator. It just so happened the Russians stepped in as allies for their own personal gain, but the North Vietnamese would have accepted help from anyone if it meant reunification. Communism was just a means to an end. The ideal solution would have been to kick the defeated French out and honour the agreement they made with Viet Minh after their help against Japan in WW2.
Phóng sự hay quá
The shame of sending working class children to die for the power and greed of politicians & their elitists masters
173RD Airborne not shit, facts!
Does anyone know what the song is at 50:43? It's not linked to in the description above.
The song name (gia tài của mẹ) writer trịnh công sơn singer khánh ly I hope its helped
Peter Arnett has been around alot even lately in Afghanistan.
Would anyone tell me who is the doctor at 17:00 🕔
The problem with that war . The people you were building a school with in daylight were shooting you at night...
Just like parts of Afghanistan
52 years ago ..
30:50 what a beautiful person. Such a shame her husband was killed and in that culture then a widow was not so valued.
Arnett, doesn't hide his opinions does he? The beginning of the end of journalism.
Steel-I agree.. Walter Cronkite was also a very candid reporter..To paraphrase what he once said-that the war is unwinnable
@@johnmoran1317 it was unwinable
@@johnmoran1317 "candid" I think you misinterpreted the post you replied to.
Journalists should report not insert their opinions which are intended to influence the viewer; i.e. propoganda.
@@samk2266 _thanks for your supportive comment..
@@workhorse7134 -and the government's claim of the domino theory[ie-that all of Asia might become communist] was not propoganda????????I strongly support Cronkite's comment.. and believe it was closer to the truth than the government's stand.
Anybody that knows the artist at 50:36 playing music please leave info. Thanks
Gia Tài Cûa Me - Khánh Ly
@@brucemurray9363 thank you so much. and its on spotify so i can actually listen to it and her other music
Many people I know said that Lyndon Johnson made a big mistake by not calling up the reserves and The National Guard Units, by not financing the war throught War Bonds and The Rationing of Food,gasoline,scrap iron and etc.
My Uncle Larry Walters served several tours in Vietnam only to come home and get murdered in his bedroom by his own people. Sure wished I could locate someone that knew him then. 101st Airborne Ranger Larry Walters.
If your lower middle class in the sixtys,and male,when you graduate high school your going to Viet Nam
it also made a difference where you lived, a lot of southerners were drafted over northerners simply because of the state they lived in.
*you're
*sixties
If they graduate high school in their sixties they deserve to be sent off to Vietnam
Raul Duke your about dumb, no one said anything about graduating high school at 60 years old.
Yup.
I dont think i wld want to leave.