Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• ASIN: 6304462530
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,056 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Roots of a War Despite cordial relations between American intelligence officers and communist leader Ho Chi Minh in the turbulent closing months of World War II, French and British hostility to the Vietnamese revolution laid the groundwork for a new war. The First Vietnam War (1945 - 1954) The French generals expected to defeat Ho's rag-tag Vietminh guerrillas easily, but after eight years of fighting and $2.5 billion in U.S. aid, the French lost a crucial battle at Dien Bien Phu - and with it, their Asian empire.