Lectures curated around American Experience: The Fall of Saigon that explores the final chapter of the Vietnam War.

Ten years after America had committed ground combat troops to Viet Nam and two years after a ceasefire agreement had failed to stop the fighting - North Vietnamese communists toppled the South Vietnamese government in Saigon in a lightning offensive that startled the world. This program chronicles the final two years of US involvement in Viet Nam. Originally broadcast in 1983 as the final episode of the WGBH-produced series Vietnam: A Television History, it shows the desperation of the final days before Saigon fell and details the evacuation led by the US military.