Benjamin Jones
Director
Our Vietnam War (2023)
Season 1
Our Vietnam War tells the story of Australia's involvement in the words of the men who were sent to fight; the battles, the protests, returning and the long shadow the war cast on the people whose lives were turned upside down.
Released Aug. 15, 2023
Episode 60 min
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Genres: Documentary, War
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Production Companies: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Network: ABC TV
S1E1 - A Popular War
Shows how Australia became entangled in the war, how sending conscripted soldiers won widespread support but forever changed lives and how the first stirrings of dissent started to appear.
Aug. 15, 2023, midnight
S1E2 - All The Way
Our veterans set out daily life under constant vigilance and explain how the battles of Long Tan and Coral-Balmoral unfolded. Politically, Australia's relationship with the US had never been stronger.
Aug. 22, 2023, midnight
S1E3 - The Long Shadow
As the US withdraws from Vietnam, Australia follows suit. For those who returned, the war would forever hang over their lives, through health issues like PTSD. Members of the Vietnamese diaspora speak.
Aug. 29, 2023, midnight
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ABC TV
60 min/ep
181 min
Aug. 15, 2023
Aug. 29, 2023, midnight
Ended
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