Vietnam War Secrets
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Actor: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: BCI ECLIPSE LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 672 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BCI / Eclipse
Movie Reviews of Vietnam War Secrets
Movie Review: Just awful
Summary: 1 Stars
I made the mistake of watching this DVD recently in an effort to learn a little more about the Vietnam War. As an academic, my area of expertise is confined to religious wars fought several centuries ago, but I was keen to understand more about these years, and the terrible atrocities committed on both sides during the Vietnam War. While I don't doubt that Mr Rasen has some respectable credentials as a Vietnam Veteran I am frankly astonished he claims to have any as an`explosive' documentary maker. The promise, that through "these never before released top secret documents and interviews" the real truth about the War will emerge, is just not, in my view, delivered upon. From the outset, the narrator's delivery and style of presentation left me utterly bewildered. Sitting at a desk, speaking in a long monotonous drone, and then simply interspersing this with archive footage of soldiers in action, does not constitute an explosive documentary. A good example of what to expect would be the fact that Mr Rasen repeats, over what looks like a poor PowerPoint demonstration, for minute after tedious minute, not only the casualty numbers, but the endless numbers of the crippled, maimed, wounded, and depressed. List after list after list of men and women killed in helicopters, planes, on the ground, in hospital...it is truly relentless; astonishingly,the only things to gaze upon while this is underway are the figures themselves. Breaking down the deaths of every single member of the American military in Vietnam into torturous categories and sub-categories is something which only the dullest of books should do. I had hoped to learn from this DVD, but ultimately, after an hour of what can only be described as excruciating boredom I switched off. I did make the mistake of trying several of the discs, in an effort to be fair to Mr Rasen, but sadly, I have to report they were all equally dreary.
Unless you wish to spend what will almost certainly be the dullest evening of your life, I'd avoid this.
Summary of Vietnam War Secrets
"Vietnam War Secrets is an explosive documentary series revealing many long-time classified secrets on the Vietnam War and what was truly behind it. Producer Edward Rasen spent five years battling the U.S. Department of Defense for release of classified films and documents that will reveal a great deal of the factual truth. Mr. Rasen has also exposes the real situation in Viet-Nam through a first-time interview with General Nguyen Khanh, ruler of southern Viet-Nam during 1964-1965; and, Frank Snepp, former CIA chief analyst in Saigon from 1972 through April 29, 1975."There are thousands of books, tens of thousands of newspaper and magazine stories and hundreds of hours of television reports have been produced about what is commonly called the Viet-Nam War. However, we are still in the dark on many events and actions as to why and how. Unfortunately, most Americans including military personnel were ignorant about Viet-Nam and the true nature of events from 1945 to the fateful day of April 30, 1975. We have been misled by political rhetoric and propaganda generated by U.S. presidents and their staffs. Unfortunately, the truth became the first casualty of war. Now some of the answers are revealed in "Vietnam War Secrets" a 4 disc box set. Through these never before released top secret documents and interviews, these facts undermine many myths which long have masqueraded as the truth. Edward Rasen is the former ABC News producer in Viet-Nam and Cambodia who uncovered the Killing Fields and has been a finalist for the annual Overseas Press Club award for best foreign reporting. He served in Viet-Nam as a combat infantryman and, Long Range Recon team leader plus, graduated from the MACV-5th Special Forces Group RECONDO School.
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