Product Details

• Actors: National Geographic
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• VHS Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000640ZJ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,745 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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National Geographic journeys deep behind battle lines to experience a different side of the Vietnam War - the side seen only through the lenses of North Vietnamese photographers. Renowned British photojournalist Tim Page travels back to the land where he nearly lost his life to meet with North Vietnamese war photographers, revealing remarkable, never-before-seen photos and personal stories long hidden by time and tragedy.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vietnam the unseen war is an "excellent documentary", April 11, 2005

By	Dong Ha (northern, california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic - Vietnam's Unseen War - Pictures from the Other Side (DVD)

I just watched this documentary and I was impressed, the quality was outstanding! one of the best war photographer films about the war in VN ever made in my honest opinion.

*1 hour documentary with many never before seen B&W war footage of the Viet cong & NVA very good narration and interviews with actual combat photographers that took these photos over 30 years ago.
*12 picture stills from the book with narration
*bonus 30 minute film called the Decending Dragon about a Vietnamese woman who goes back to VN after 26 years and interviews the people where many of these photos were taken during the war.
*Biography of photographers

total running time is actually about an hour and a half with the bonus documentary
I would highly recommend this DVD and also the companion book titled "Another Vietnam" by Tim Page.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good...!, March 24, 2005

By	G. Fields (Worcester, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: National Geographic - Vietnam's Unseen War - Pictures from the Other Side (DVD)

I bought this DVD and enjoyed it very much. It gives clear insight to what the war photo journalists had to do to get their photos & stories to the masses. Interesting stories from both U.S. and Vietnamese war photo journalists. Also, their is a bonus feature of a Vietnamese girl who escaped Vietnam, was raised in the United States, and goes back to see the native country in which she was born. She goes to Hanoi, Central Highlands, and Saigon to talk to some Vietnamese people about what happened during the Vietnam War and how it has affected their lives. Very moving at times. Yes, their are still photos, but they serve to show us the horror of war. Tim Paiges' story is amazing in itself, that he lived to tell what happened to him and how the experience has changed him. Well worth seeing in my opinion.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappontment, June 27, 2007

By	Jon O. Weiss "Sci-Fi Scout" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: National Geographic - Vietnam's Unseen War - Pictures from the Other Side (DVD)

I bought this video thinking that it was going to be a documentary showing the war as viewed by the North Vietnamese government, what it actually turned out to be is a photographers autobiography.

It would be more accurately titled "Tim Page - The War Years".