Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. - Volume 3. | Don North | 1980 | ACMI collection

The Trail - explores the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a 1500 mile system of mountain paths that was the lifeline for North Vietnam. “Firepower” covers the American strategy to stop the war through air power, and studies U.S. military operations at the period of maximum troop involvement.

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Credits

co-producer

Don North

Ian Macleod

Paul Lang

Ron Kelly

production company

Cinequity Funding

Information Television Productions

Duration

01:38:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1980

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302226

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

History → History

Television

Television → Television programs

Television → Television programs → Television programs - United States

Television → Television series

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. - Volume 3.

United States, 1980

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