Minnesota Experience — Season 1, Episode 28: Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War
Documentary • 30 min • 6 seasons, 87 episodes
Episode synopsis
In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA organized a secret war in neighboring Laos to prevent communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. The Hmong fought for the U.S. — and for themselves— to keep Ho Chi Minh’s regime from destroying their way of life. Distributed nationally by American Public Television.
About Minnesota Experience
For decades, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) has dived into the whitewater of bygone eras and emerged with insight about our shared past and values as Minnesotans. Tapping into TPT’s rich archive of historical stories and adding new ones to the fold, Minnesota Experience holds the mirror of history up to the modern moment as a force that can forever change who we are and who we want to be.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Flour Power
- E2Lost Twin Cities III
- E3Cornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis
- E4Fires of 1918
- E5Lost Twin Cities 4
- E6Glensheen and the Congdon Legacy
- E7Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
- E8The People's Protectors
- E9MN in the 70's
- E10The Fabulous Ice Age
- E11Hmong Pioneers: Honoring the First Wave
- E12Restoring The People's House