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Doubt (January 1966-June 1967)

Episode 4 of 10

Series telling the story of the Vietnam War. Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.

Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon struggles to 'pacify the countryside'. As an anti-war movement builds back home, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers' war.

55 minutes

Music Played

  • Nine Inch Nails

    12 Ghosts II

  • The Staple Singers

    Masters of War

  • The United States Military Academy Band

    On Brave Old Army Team

  • Wilson Pickett

    Mustang Sally

  • United States Marine Band

    Semper Fidelis March

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

    Pieces Form the Whole

  • Howlin’ Wolf

    Smokestack Lightning

  • Pete Seeger

    The Willing Conscript

  • Nina Simone

    The Backlash Blues

  • Nine Inch Nails

    13 Ghosts II

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

    Pinned and Mounted

  • Nine Inch Nails

    The Wretched

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The Sound of Silence

  • Miles Davis

    L'Assassinat De Carala

  • Bob Dylan

    One Too Many Mornings

  • Nine Inch Nails

    The Beginning of the End (Instrumental)

  • Le Tu Cuong

    Nho'em (I Miss You)

  • Wayne Shorter

    Footprints

  • Bob Dylan

    Talkin' World War III Blues

  • Jacqueline Schwab

    My Country, 'Tis of Thee

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

    Later Into the Night

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The Sound of Silence

Credits

Role Contributor
Director Ken Burns
Director Lynn Novick
Writer Geoffrey C Ward
Producer Sarah Botstein
Producer Ken Burns
Producer Lynn Novick

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