Turning Point: The Vietnam War

Wow, awesome! I loved this mini-series! Collating all of this footage into such a coherent storyline was really quite an achievement! Excellent! I'd definitely watch it again!

We've seen quite a few documentaries on Vietnam and this one covers a lot of the same territory, though there are some surprising facts I'd never heard about the situation in Vietnam before the war and with regard to the French (I never knew Ho Chi Minh had reached out to Truman for help and America chose France instead - what a better world this would have been if we'd worked with Minh instead). The one thing I hate about these is the lionization of protestors. Sure, the war is wrong and we should never have been involved. Protest your government, this was their doing. But to take it out on the soldiers returning from combat, that's unconscionable. I will never forgive protestors for that and I still don't agree that protest is the right way to go about airing grievances. Just look what that mentality has evolved into now - kids openly supporting terrorism and the downfall of their own country. This documentary tries to make them look noble because like many protestors, and even back then, the media was decidedly left of center. Both protestors and the mainstream media got it wrong and made this country worse, not better. And still we had two more senseless wars proving they were in effective and useless (Afghanistan and Iraq).