Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War
Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War
Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War is a 26-part Canadian television documentary about the Vietnam War. It was written by Peter Arnett and narrated by Richard Basehart. The series was produced in 1980 by Michael Maclear in Canada.
It aired on CBC in Canada from October 22, 1980 to August 1, 1982, on NBC in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The pilot runs 52 minutes and the regular episodes are 26 minutes each.
During production, Maclear visited Vietnam and was granted access to film material, becoming the first Western journalist allowed to film there since the war ended. For American syndication, the series was edited into 13 hour-long episodes. Embassy released the series on videocassette, and it won a National Education Association award for best world documentary.
Peter Arnett, the series writer, was an Associated Press reporter in Vietnam from 1962 to 1975. CBC aired 18 of the 26 episodes in the 1980–81 season, with the remaining eight shown in 1981–82. British audiences saw the series on Channel 4 in the 1984–85 season.
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