. . "Vietnam" . . "1961 - 1975" . . "United States" . . . . . "A history of American military involvement in Vietnam's civil war from 1963 to 1975. Draws many parallels between French involvement and disenchantment in the 1950s and the same path later followed by the United States. A brief but comprehensive record is illustrated by newsreels and narrated by journalists who try to place events in the perspective in which they were viewed at the time. Commentary by Walter Cronkite." . "Vietnam: a war that is finished" . . . . . . . . "Uses television news reports to trace the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the early 1950's to the fall of South Vietnam in 1973."@en . "Uses television videotape news reports to trace the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the early 1950's to the fall of South Vietnam in 1973." . "Vietnam, an historical document" . . . "Vietnam an historical document" . "Vietnam an historical document"@en . . . . "Chronicles U.S. involvement in Vietnam from the early 1950's through President Ford's announcement that the war was finished."@en . . "Vietnam: an historical document"@en . . "Uses television videotape news reports to trace the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the early 1950's to the fall of South Vietnam in 1973. Narrated by Walter Cronkite."@en . . "Uses television videtape news reports to trace the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the early 1950's to the fall of South Vietnam in 1973." . . . . . . . . . "Using news footage, this tape charts U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the first of the \"televised\" wars. Presenting a year-by-year chronicle, the film analyzes the foreign and military policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford, studies the nature of warfare in Vietnam, the growing unrest in the U.S., and those military and strategic defeats which culminated in the collapse of South Vietnam." . . . .