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Through Death Gate: Vietnam's Secret War
One road during the Vietnam War held the key to victory. The Americans held the upper hand - The Communists dealt the final blow.

History - 52 minutes
With Expresso TV

There was one crossing point from North Vietnam into Laos which truck drivers, carrying weapons to fight in the South, called Death Gate. This was part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam’s logistical supply line. Each driver to enter the Gate expected to die trying to traverse the Desert of Fire. This Gate was critical for victory as whoever won the battle here would know the other’s main weakness.

In this documentary we reveal previously classified information. We hear for the first time real life stories of covert operations by American Special Forces. We interview the North Vietnamese on how their clandestine tactics overcame intense bombing, which exceeded the equivalent of a dozen Hiroshima’s. We gain rare access to remote parts of Laos and discover secret roads, crashed American aircraft and hidden army camps. Along the way we interview Lao villagers about their war and hear their stories which have never been recorded.

After 10 years of research we explode the myth that the Americans were fighting a peasant army - how can we learn for the future when we have denied the past?

Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail

 

Our thanks go to:

  • Budd Margolis - Advisor
  • William Morris - Music
  • Job Briggs - Voiceover
  • Plastic Milk - Graphics
  • Framepool - Archive film footage of the Vietnam War
  • Jim Burns and Robert Castillo - Archive home film footage of the Vietnam War and SOG
  • North Vietnamese Army - Archive film footage of the Vietnam War

Spies of Ho Chi Minh
Stories from the Viet Cong Underground Network during the Vietnam War

History - 52 minutes
Under Negotiations

In the 1920s Ho Chi Minh the future Communist leader of North Vietnam established a spy network to fight foreign invasion. During the Vietnam War the people who became involved in this would smuggled information out of American bases and send it back to Hanoi so they deploy their troops and weapons to battlefields. They were the eyes and ears of Hanoi - The Peoples' War - in some cases holding high positions in the Southern Government.

This documentary shows how the under-funded Communists spy network outfoxed the American's billion dollar Central Intelligence Agency, see books.

Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Spy network in the Mekong Delta

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