LoginThe American Experience: My Lai - Region 1
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Part of The American Experience (1988) series, this documentary recounts the events leading up to and then subsequent to March 16, 1968 when U.S. soldiers killed 507 civilians in the village of My Lai, Vietnam. Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry) was well trained and had arrived in Vietnam a few months before. The operation that day was supposed to be directed at a Viet Cong battalion (which it turned out was not there) and their orders were to destroy the village and kill anyone in it. Several helicopter pilots could see the rampage unfolding and rescued some of the Vietnamese civilians. The cover-up began almost imm
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Manufacturer: PBS
Release date: 8 June 2010
EAN: 0841887012133 UPC: 841887012133
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Release date: 8 June 2010
EAN: 0841887012133 UPC: 841887012133
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Seen in 2017 (341 movies items)"I had seen this some years back but I only remembered seeing it at the end when the trials/courtroom shit started happening. Interesting documentary that gave more background info about what lead to the mindless slaughter that the G.I's did."