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I believe the BBC version shaved roughly 30/40 minutes off of each episode... Not sure if Netflix have the full American release available, but if they do it might even be worth a re-watch.WHole thing was on BBC iplayer end of last year and I watched it.
Fascinating insight into a very complicated war.
Yeah, someone pointed it out mate.I believe the BBC version shaved roughly 30/40 minutes off of each episode... Not sure if Netflix have the full American release available, but if they do it might even be worth a re-watch.
Noticed it had been mentioned as I went through the rest of the replies, like.Yeah, someone pointed it out mate.
Can't believe it. I feel cheated!
Downloaded the PBS version to rewatch
When I was a kid I can remember grown-ups in the village saying they thought that Vietnam was going to turn into WW3. All through my youth it was on the telly every night - just became kind of background noise. Then when I was about 19 I realised that in the US lads the same age as me would have caught the back end of the draft and end up getting shot at by the VC - that moment really was my political awakening.
Watching the Netflix series helped put a lot of things in place for me. I would recognise lots of things I remembered from news reports at the time but I didn't know the fully story as a connected sequence of events. Also It's interesting to look back at the attitudes I remember in this country at the same time - for instance I can remember that common views of most people of my parents generation were that students involved in the battle of Grosvenor Square should be given the birch and the young people shot at Kent State Uni had it coming if they wanted to go having demonstrations.
One illuminating book is "Street Without Joy" which outlines France's involvement in Indochina, which segued seamlessly into the US involvement in Vietnam. We have a lot to thank Harold Wilson for - when the Americans wanted UK to support them in Vietnam he told them to do one. Not sure that more modern day PMs would have the backbone to refuse to do the US bidding, which worries me for future shit.