''Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War'', a 26-part half-hour Canadian television documentary about the

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, was produced in 1980 by

Michael Maclear Michael Maclear, OC (1929 – December 25, 2018) was an award-winning Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former correspondent for various CBC programs and for CTV's '' W5''. He is the great-great-grand-nephew of South African ...

. The series aired in Canada on

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, in the United States on NBC, and the United Kingdom on

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. Maclear visited

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during the production of the series and while he was there, he was granted access to film material. He was the first Western journalist to be allowed to visit Vietnam since the end of the war. The documentary series was consolidated into 13 hour-long episodes for American television syndication. The series was released on videocassette format by Embassy and won a National Education Association award for best world documentary. Series writer Peter Arnett was an

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reporter in Vietnam from 1962 to 1975. CBC only aired 18 of the 26 episodes during the 1980–81 season because the production of the series was incomplete. The remaining 8 episodes were broadcast during CBC's 1981–82 season. British audiences saw the series during

's 1984–85 season.

Episodes

Episode Calendar, retrieved September 21, 2017, https://episodecalendar.com/en/show/vietnam-the-ten-thousand-day-war/season/1

References

External links

Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series

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BFI: ''Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War'' episode list

TVArchive.ca: ''The Ten Thousand Day War''
(archived at the

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Michael Maclear website
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