Department of History

A Comprehensive and Sweeping Documentary that should be repeated again and again.

The Elusive Enemy Filmed mostly by the Viet Cong, take an inside look at the weapons and tactics of the elusive and resourceful enemy. You will seehow American forces tried to counter their enemy with technology and with 'tunnel rats' who hunted the Viet Cong in ther own hideouts. The Tet Offensive By 1968, America commanders thought they could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then came the enemies' searing Tet holiday offensive, the coordinated attack on more than one hundred cities throughout South Vietnam. This program captures the ferocity of the desperate struggle in the cities of Vietnam and the stunned reaction in America. Dateline Saigon This is a protrait of Saigon, the reeming and sordid wartime capitol of South Vietnam. Witness the fall to the North Vietnamese forces at the end of the war. Revisit Saigon, now renamed HO Chi Minh City, ten years after the war and view the changes. Fire From The Sky This eye opening program is the story of the men and machines that dominated the air over Southeast ASia for ten years. Watch as the helicopter comes of age as a weapon and shares the sky with the screaming jet fighters. Follow a bombing mission over North Vietnam from the pre-flight briefing all the way to the target.

America Pulls Back This is the war as it was fought during the last days of United States involvement in Vietnam. It is a shocking story of poor morale, drug use and innocent victims of a brutal war. America struggles for a way out, the so-called "peace with honor." The End of the Road From the withdrawal of the last US combat troops and the return of American POWs, to the fall of Saigon, this is the final chapter in the Vietnam War. Walk the Ho Chi Minh trail and witness the final offensive against the South. As Saigon falls, you will watch the last tragic act in a long and divisive war. Legacies The War in Vietnam was one of America's longest and undeniably the most divisive conflict in US history. Go with the veterans and people that lived through the conflict to revisit the places and memories of a distant but unforgotten war.

Vietnam: America Pulls Back: See the war as it was fought during the waning days of U.S. involvement. Showing the open use of drugs and the plummeting morale that plagued the U.S. forces. See the drop-outs, American deserters and the cast-offs of the war-Vietnamese children who became innocent victims. And watch President Nixon and Henry Kissinger struggle to find a way out of Vietnam and achieve "peace with honor." The End of the Road: This program reflects on the final chapter of the Vietnam War, from the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops and the return of American POWs, to the fall of Saigon.

Vietnam: The Elusive Enemy: The story of an enemy the U.S. soldiers rarely saw-the Vietcong. This video displays the Vietcong's weapons and tactics. Courage Under Fire: Remarkable footage captures combat action from the first U.S. offensives to the incursions into Cambodia meant to speed up the war's end.

Vietnam : The World of Charlie Company: Insight into the public and private battles waged in Vietnam. Showing how the soldier's own conflicting views of the war played out on the battlefield. Fire From the Sky: This volume tells a story of the men and machines used in the aerial campaign-the Phantom, the Corsair, the Intruder, the Thunderchief and the F-11.

From 1832-1834, Prince Maximilian zu Wied, a German aristocrat, and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer took a historic journey to the American West. Views of a Vanishing Frontier retraces their two-year expedition to the upper reaches of the Missouri River, and evokes the experience using Bodmer's original paintings, extensive location photography, and real words taken from Prince Maximilian's diary. Bodmer and Maximilian left an important legacy that is cherished by today's Native Americans, preserving and era of American cultural history that would soon vanish with the onslaught of technological civilization.

Feel the need for greed with the Wall Street Insider Trading Edition, featuring an all-new scrolling trivia track chroniciling the financial, political and cultural events of the freewheeling '80s - and more!Michael Douglas received the 1987 Best Actor Academy Award for his powerful performance as Gordon Gekko, a financial wizard who lures an ambitious young stockbroker (Charlie Sheen) into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage in this gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong.