All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Ambush: The Battle of la Drang

    • October 11, 1998
    • TLC

    Host Jack Smith, a rifleman wounded at the Battle of Ia Drang, recalls one of Vietnam's first major battles.

  • S01E02 Under Siege at Khe Sanh

    • October 11, 1998
    • TLC

    Veterans relive the siege of the U.S. military base at Khe Sahn, the largest single battle of the war.

  • S01E03 TET: The Battle For Hearts & Minds

    • October 11, 1998
    • TLC

    The 1968 Tet Offensive ushers in the bloodiest year of the war.

  • S01E04 War In The Skies

    • October 11, 1998
    • TLC

    Soldiers relive experiences in the cockpit; veterans recall being shot down and locked up as POWs.

  • S01E05 Secret War, Secret Men

    • October 13, 1998
    • TLC

    Stories and images recount the "chilling" stories of soldiers who participated in clandestine operations of the Vietnam War.

  • S01E06 Last Chopper Out: The Fall Of Saigon

    • October 13, 1998
    • TLC

    Eyewitnesses recount the war's final days as the North Vietnamese close in on Saigon.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 From the River To The Sea

    • February 7, 2000
    • TLC

    Documentary about the Navy's role in Vietnam. Navy ships and personnel ranged over the entire theatre of operations, from carrier-based air strikes and amphibious assaults, to shore bombardments, interdicting enemy shipping and search and destroy missions on the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Women At War

    • February 7, 2000
    • TLC

    Examination of the Vietnam War through the eyes of nearly a dozen women who served as nurses, Red Cross volunteers, entertainers, and clerks. Also includes archival footage of hospitals, battlegrounds and variety shows.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 The Invisible Enemy

    • February 7, 2000
    • TLC

    The story of the 173rd Airborne Brigade's taking of Dak To or hill 875 and then abandoning it two days later. The story is told by the members of the Brigade. Includes footage of the battle.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Stories From The Wall

    • May 29, 2000
    • TLC

    Documentary telling the story of four men whose names appear on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Richard Fitzgibbon, Jr. was the first official casualty in Vietam, yet the U.S. government did not want his name on the Wall, citing the War had not begun when he died. His family fought for decades to finally have his name inscribed, and in 1999, it was added. Dan Ouellette was a veteran who visited the Wall 10 years after combat in Vietnam and found his name listed among the dead. Already suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome because of his combat experiences, Ouellette went into even graver shock. Richard Luttrell was haunted for 20 years by a photograph he had taken from the pocket of a North Vietnamese soldier he killed. Layna McConkey was one of thousands of American children whose fathers went to Vietnam, never to return. Her moving search to know her father culminated in a visit to the Wall with her dying mother, and the discovery of tape recordings her father made for them while in Vietnam.