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Curated Video
Protest Music of the Vietnam War
In protest against the Vietnam War - one of the most divisive conflicts in US history - American musicians wrote and performed hundreds of songs calling for peace and criticising the US government’s handling of the war.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Inventions from War: Vietnam War
Learn more about technology in the Vietnam War.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aftereffects of War: The Vietnam War
Learn more about the Vietnam War and its consequences.
Curated Video
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, is rightly recognised as one of the most touching and solemn war memorials in the world. But when plans for the memorial were first unveiled, many Vietnam veterans and US political leaders...
Step Back History
Canada and America's Weird Relationship
A spat broke out at the G7 between American President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime-Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada and America have a special and weird relationship. Let's talk about it.
Professor Dave Explains
Ronald Reagan: The End of the Cold War (1981 – 1989)
Ronald Reagan was the first celebrity to become president, and as we now know, he wasn't the last. His presidency saw huge changes in both economic and foreign policy. What were these changes? What were the ramifications? Let's get a...
Curated Video
What is the Cold War?
This live-action video program is about the word Cold War. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Cold War through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
John D Ruddy
Vietnam War in 13 Minutes
An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the Vietnam War, going from colonial French Indochina, through its war against the United States and beyond, and how this conflict slotted into the events of the Cold War.
Mr. Beat
The Kent State Shootings Explained
Mr. Beat tells you everything you need to know about the Kent State shootings, a terrible and shocking tragedy that was symbolic of how hostile and chaotic things got at the height of the Vietnam War.
Khan Academy
US History Overview 3 - WWII to Vietnam
This video brings viewers up to modern history (1975) after taking them through WWII, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. Although the timeline's format may seem straightforward, viewers will be engaged by the...
Khan Academy
Vietnam War, The 20th Century, World history
The history, context, and ramifications of the Vietnam War are the topics of this lecture, which details the roles of China, England, France, and the U.S. in the conflict. A timeline and map guide viewers through the events of the...
TED-Ed
The Infamous and Ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail
The United States National Security Agency described it as one of "the great achievements in military engineering of the twentieth century. Support your classroom study of the Vietnam War with this brief but effective video, which...
Library of Congress
Loc: Experienceing War, Forever a Soldier
37 tales of servicemen and women who served our country in every major war from World War I through the current conflict in Iraq.
Library of Congress
Loc: Experencing War, Voices of War
Relates war through the eyes of 60 veterans and civilians caught up in the momentous conflicts of the 20th century.
Library of Congress
Loc: Experiencing War: Vietnam War: Stories From the Veterans History Project
Find many interviews with Vietnam veterans from the Veterans History Project. Some of the interviews are audio, many are video, and some include photos.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: The Limits of Power: The United States in Vietnam
Scholarly series of videos on the history of the United States in Vietnam gives students a glimpse into the basis of U.S. decision making and the shaping of foreign policy during the Vietnam War. [1:54]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Last Days in Vietnam: A Moral Dilemma
Video [6:11] about the last days in Vietnam when North Vietnamese were closing in on Siagon and the U.S. faced a dilemma about evaucating U.S. and South Vietnamese military personnel.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Last Days in Vietnam: The Embassy Evacuation
Video [2:30] describing the evacuation of South Vietnamese led by American Ambassador, Grahm Martin.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Last Days in Vietnam: Miki Nguyen's Story
Video [5:36] in which Miki Nguyen tells the story of how his family escaped by helicopter, the encroaching North Vietnamese, 1975. Provides support materials for teachers and students.
US National Archives
Internet Archive: Big Picture: The Fight for Vietnam
Original footage [28:11] from U.S. Department of Defense documents activities of the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy and their combined effort to help stamp out the threat of communism in South Vietnam.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Vietnam War
This video is a comprehensive lesson on the Vietnam War including the causes and effects on our country. Narrated by Sal Khan who utilizes pictures and graphics to teach this lesson in an engaging fashion. [17:41]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Listening to My Father
A touching story from a son of a Vietnam vet. Content gives an inside look at a family that had to deal with the day to day toll of a war.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack
NPR considers the incidents and reporting surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin incident forty years after the actual event, a military encounter at sea that escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
PBS
American Experience: My Lai
The documentary [01:30:00], My Lai, examines the massacre of the village people in the Village of My Lai, Vietnam in 1968 by a company of American Soldiers. It poses the question, "Were they "just following orders" as some later...