The Vietnam War - Season 1, Episode 1: Soundtracks

2017

•

14 songs

•

The Vietnam War

Song

Description

Listen on

The Marines' Hymn

The Band of the Grenadier Guards

Film clips of combat in Vietnam. Hometown parades. Karl Marlantes: nobody talked about Vietnam.

A Familiar Taste

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Video montage of Vietnam War events in reverse chronological order.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan

Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC. Max Cleland: to find meaning in suffering. Stills of Vietnam War era. Bao Nihn, NVA vet: who won and who lost is not a question....

The Wounded Soldier

David Cieri

La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) [Accordeon Version]

Shockwave-Sound

End of World War I. Versailles Peace conference. Ho Chi Minh appearance.

La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) [Piano Version]

Shockwave-Sound

Mean Old World

T-Bone Walker

John Kennedy in Saigon in Autumn 1951.

13 Ghosts II

Nine Inch Nails

Pieces Form the Whole

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Post-WWII French Colonial era. OSS involvement.

Later Into the Night

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Dien Bien Phu, 1954.

Come On-A My House

Rosemary Clooney

U.S. supporting France financially in early 1950s.

32 Ghosts IV

Nine Inch Nails

Tình Quân Dân (People and Fighters Unite)

Nguyen Xuan Hoach

Start of pre-war history of Vietnam. French colony. Stills and clips. Intercut with Vietnam-War-era stills and footage

The Marines' Hymn

The Band of the Grenadier Guards, Rodney Bashford

Film clips of combat in Vietnam. Hometown parades. Karl Marlantes: nobody talked about Vietnam.