Episode 5: This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) on-demand to 10/15 and again 10/24-11/7. President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
Episode 4: Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) on-demand to 10/15 and again 10/17-10/31. US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) on-demand to 10/15 and again 10/10-10/24. With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
THE VIETNAM WAR, Episode 2: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) on-demand through 10/17. As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
Time to Lay It Down: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War explores the music created during the Vietnam War, which expressed the deep divisions in the U.S., and provided a life line for GIs in Vietnam, as well as a source of healing when they came home.
This one-hour special sheds light on a question that has intrigued historians for decades: why was Lyndon Johnson unable or unwilling to extricate his country from a war that evidence now suggests he knew was unwinnable?
