Richard Taylor - Award-winning film-maker who made documentaries in locations as varied as Antarctica, Vietnam and Glasgow, Taylor brought to his films a rare integrity and commitment.
During a long and distinguished career as a documentary director for the BBC, Richard Taylor made around 50 films in 61 countries, several of which won international awards. He then went on to make successful films as an independent and was working right up until his death at the age of 81.
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Wow, an incredibly independant, insightful and informative contemporary report.
No objectively here. Subtle political comments throughout. Stock footage followed by op/ed. Pathetic journalism, typical BBC. Joke.
They Really thought they were gonna win
The f-up was LBJ.
The Vietnamese had been fighting for 100’s of years..,
The army teroris come from Amerika not fight with army vietnam.but the civilians people...
You all real teroris..you come from Amerika come to Vietnam and attack Vietnames..are the Vietnam come at you country and them attack you people?you father, mother,spause, friend and other civilians???what the fuck man???You Know???how much civilians people die at there?????? Amerika the real teroris not hero.this fact man.
2024 still watching 😊
I was a Snake gunner (HueyCobra) in ‘Nam from Jan ‘67 through Feb ‘68. 1st Bn, 7th Cavalry, 1st Air Cav. Lost track of how many buddies I lost and how many VC I killed. Lost track of myself after I returned home. It’s been a long fight but I’ve learned to cope and forgive myself and forgive others. Returned to Vietnam in 2005 and met former NVA and VC. We shook hands and hugged each other. I cried. They cried. It was a powerful healing experience for me. Wishing the people of Vietnam peace and happiness from the United States. 🇺🇸
Garry Owen!
The truth about the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts off funds to all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for starting the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam
22:22 you forgot to mention the singer. Theodros Tadesse
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Fabulous documentary!! Men like Thesiger, put the "Great" into Britain!!!!! No 'elff & safety bollox men like that!!
Thanks a lot
Min 55:00 wow she’s beautiful
Viet people lives matter!!!!
Without getting very philosophical about it, it was all actually quite very simple. An Asian people wanted their independence from a colonial power and fought hard for it. The colonial powers divided it's society to create vested interests to support their agendas. However, the colonialists eventually lost interest and willpower and withdrew, leaving their artificially propped vestiges to collapse, taking a handful of their collaborators with them and leaving behind a wasteland of humanity and ecology. Thankfully, the land is different now and renewed with hope all over again. I've visited twice in 2017 and 2020. The youth no longer remember the American war. Wounds have healed, and society is upwardly mobile with aspirations. It is one of the safest countries in Southeast Asia with good human development index markers. They made it despite facing the worst of the Western colonial horrors. 👏 It's a remarkable journey of hope and resilience, and one that no amount of vietnam revisionist bile now so fashionable in America can wash away.
Another good one; Richard Taylor directed.
Those dancers at ca 12 minutes are not girls, they're pre-puberty boys. Taylor doesn't say, prob. in order to sanitise the Bedu. Perhaps, though, no-one told him. These young effeminate dancers are quite popular with older Bedu men.. Happens in Afghanistan too.
Condoleances and sorry would be nice to say in the first place. I meen for all those everybodies.
I was there from May 1969 to July 1969.I served with thev1st Cav. Division til I was wounded in July.Luckily it was a leg wound which was good enough to get me out of Nam.
Americans in viet nam ...French in Indochina : the same War.
president Johnson started the American war in Vietnam and then when things got bad he split.
John sandy must be given the title of a national hero for his un wavering determination for the restoration of all these artefacts and monuments
Don’t forget that the South Vietnamese government was corrupt. They persecuted the Buddhist and the Vietnamese army deleted shit was corrupt country was never stable💯😟
Yeah, that’s for Privileged rear guard paper chasers ,who have no concept of war in combat , it’s not for the grunts who are in the bush who suffer 🥹who don’t receive those benefits. We already know what the deal is💯😟
As an American officer once said, we may not win many medals, but we'll sure change the geography, they sure did alter the geography.
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Low morale, lots of GIs developed serious drug addictions. Uncle Sam sent them to an island off the Vietnamese coast to try to dry them out. Often they were not sent back to the states, but to Europe. So there were barracks and buildings in Germany filled with drug addled useless soldiers.
That quote you read doesn’t reveal, define Ethiopia. They were never asleep but instead doing what they knew to do best- happy cheerful about their life. United.
Very glad to see the old documentary which has shown the era of 70s' and 80s' in Kathmandu valley. Thank you for uploading this video from which I can see the changes in Kathmandu valley.
The World About Us was amazing. Learnt so much as a small kid through this. Irreplaceable
Well this journalist is more realistic than Patriot then he should manure himself around Vietnam on his own don't rely on the military equipment helmets. Do it on your! Hypocrite.
An excellent documentary done by the BBC during those days of my country at war. Great representation
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who is the singer in min 55:02 ?
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That was our golden time and still reflects who we Nepalese are today. Such a deep and archeological cover of ancient Kathmandu which is struggling to change by the newly appointed Mayer Balen Shah presently. No such surprise i will be curious checking every one of this delicate miniature wood crafts in my next visit to the Capital @22:07 . I enjoyed your 50 minutes. Always proud Nepalese from 2024.
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I was filmed for this ..🙂 in Richmond store . I dropped out of selling cosmetics not long after this was made , Great insight into this illicit trade .
What happened to intellectuality in the modern Ethiopia? People used to be very articulate and filled with passion.
What a documentary! Beautiful❤