The fall of Saigon
(DVD) 

Collective title from container.

Originally broadcast as episodes of the PBS mini-series "Vietnam: a television history" in 1983; edited and rebroadcast in 1997 as part of the television series American experience.

Special features: Access to the "American experience" web site.

Narrator, Will Lyman.

"Peace is at hand": While American and Vietnamese soldiers continued to clash in battle, diplomats in Paris argued about making peace. "Homefront USA": Through troubled years of controversy and violence, U.S. casualties mounted, victory remained elusive, and American opinion moved from general approval to general dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. "The end of the tunnel": On April 29, 1975 - 10 years after America had committed ground combat troops to Vietnam and two years after a cease-fire agreement had failed to stop the fighting - North Vietnamese communists toppled the South Vietnamese government in Saigon in a lightning offensive that startled the world.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, 4x3 full screen; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.