Unseen Images: The Vietnam War
The Secret of the war
S1 • E1 Dec 31, 1995 50m
From the first contact with the jungle to the gigantic deployments of men in 1966. "The Secret of the War" covers the period 1965-1967. Its origins are evoked: Capra's "Why We Fight" becomes "why we fight?" with a question mark and already raises doubts and uncertainties. The shock of the first fights is also at the heart of this episode. For the first three years of the war, the U.S. Infantry had two very different missions to win 'Hearts and Minds' and to 'Search and Destroy'. Join U.S. combat cameramen as they are choppered in alongside the troops to capture the fighting on assault operations including Starlight, Cedar Falls and Masher.