Turning Point: The Vietnam War (2025) - TV Show |
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Season 1
1x01
Apr 30, 2025
America Goes to War
1x02
Apr 30, 2025
Civil War
1x03
Apr 30, 2025
Life Is Cheap
1x04
Apr 30, 2025
Why Are We Even Here?
1x05
Apr 30, 2025
The End of the Road
Season 2
2x03
TBA
2x05
TBA
2x06
TBA
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self - President of the United States 1953 - 1961
John F. Kennedy
as Self - President of the United States 1961 - 1963
Harry S. Truman
as Self - President of the United States 1945 - 1953
Dan Rather
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Seymour Hersh
as Self - Journalist
G. Gordon Liddy
as Self - 'Plumber'
Mike Wallace
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
John Lewis
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
George W. Bush
as Self - President of the United States 2001 - 2009
Henry Kissinger
as Self - U.S. National Security Advisor
Tim Weiner
as Self - Author, Legacy of Ashes
Yoko Ono
as Self - Anti-War Activist
J. Edgar Hoover
as Self - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
George Bush
as Self - U.S. Representative
Gerald Ford
as Self - President of the United States 1974 - 1977
John Lennon
as Self - Musician, Anti-War Activist
Richard Nixon
as Self - President of the United States 1969 - 1974
Martin Luther King
as Self - Civil Rights Leader
Morley Safer
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Ed Bradley
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Walter Cronkite
as Self - Anchor, CBS Evening News
Fidel Castro
as Self - Leader of Cuba
Lyndon Johnson
as Self - President of the United States 1963 - 1969
Robert McNamara
as Self - Secretary of Defense
Lady Bird Johnson
as Self - First Lady of the United States
Muhammad Ali
as Self - Professional Boxer
Hugh Thompson
as Self - U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot
William C. Westmoreland
as Self - Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
as Self - Vice President, Democratic Presidential Nominee
Stuart Herrington
as Self - Army Intelligence Officer, Defense Attaché Office
Frank G. Wisner Jr.
as Self - U.S. Foreign Service
Richard Armitage
as Self - U.S. Navy
Graham Nash
as Self - Musician - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Dick Gregory
as Self - Activist
Daniel Ellsberg
as Self - Strategic Analyst, Rand Corporation
Peter Arnett
as Self - Associated Press Correspondent
Zedong Mao
as Self - Leader of China
John Foster Dulles
as Self - U.S. Secretary of State
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
as Themselves
Henry Cabot Lodge
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam
Bruce Morton
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Ernest Medina
as Self - Charlie Company
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate
Pham Thanh Cong
as Self - My Lai Resident, 1968
Ron Haeberle
as Self - U.S. Army
Everett Alvarez
as Self - U.S. Navy Pilot and Prisoner of War
Charles Collingwood
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Thanh Nguyen
as Self - Author, The Sympathizer
John Mitchell
as Self - U.S. Attorney General
John Negroponte
as Self - U.S. Foreign Service
Michael Kazin
as Self - Co-Author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
Morton Halperin
as Self - Dep. Asst. Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
Tom Jarriel
as Self - ABC News Correspondent
Peter Osnos
as Self - Author, LBJ and McNamara
Dean Rusk
as Self - Secretary of State
Bui Diem
as Self - South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
Eugene McCarthy
as Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate
Eldridge Cleaver
as Self - Black Panther Party Leader
Bert Quint
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
McGeorge Bundy
as Self - National Security Advisor
Frederic Whitehurst
as Self - U.S. Army
David Hilliard
as Self - Black Panther Party Chief of Staff
John Laurence
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Fredrik Logevall
as Self - Author, Embers of War
Winston Lord
as Self - Special Assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
as Self - French Army High Commissioner for Indochina
Robert Gard
as Self - Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Rufus Phillips
as Self - CIA Official
Frank Snepp
as Self - Senior CIA Intelligence Analyst
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union
Thomas A. Bass
as Self - Author, Vietnamerica: The War Comes Homes
Country Joe and the Fish
as Themselves
James Goodale
as Self - General Counsel, The New York Times
Lien-Hang Nguyen
as Self - Author, Hanoi's War
E. Howard Hunt
as Self - 'Plumber'
H.R. Haldeman
as Self - White House Chief of Staff
Marc J. Selverstone
as Self - Director of Presidential Studies, University of Virginia Miller Center
Ho Chí Minh
as Self - President of North Vietnam
Ken Hughes
as Self - Research Specialist, Presidential Recordings, University of Virginia Miller Center
George J. Veith
as Self - Author, Drawn Swords in a Distant Land
Nguyen Trong Nho
as Self - South Vietnamese Congressman
Tuong Vu
as Self - Director, US-Vietnam Research Center
Pham Ba Hoa
as Self - ARVN
Gregory Daddis
as Self - Military Historian
Chic Canfora
as Self - Anti-War Activist
Scott Camil
as Self - U.S. Marine Corps
Duc Nha Hoang
as Self - Advisor to South Vietnamese President
C. Jack Ellis
as Self - U.S. Army
Eldson J. McGhee
as Self - U.S. Army
Keith Kay
as Self - CBS News Photojournalist
Scott Shimabukuro
as Self - U.S. Marine Corps
Tran Thi Yen Ngoc
as Self - National Liberation Front - 'Viet Cong'
Vu Thanh Thuy
as Self - South Vietnamese Journalist
Mike Nakayama
as Self - U.S. Marine Corps
Kiên Thành Lê
as Self - Son of Le Duan
Le Duan
as Self - General Secretary of the Communist Party
Nguyen Van Thieu
as Self - President of South Vietnam
Vo Thi Trong
as Self - National Liberation Front - 'Viet Cong'
Madame Ton Nu Ti Ninh
as Self - Former Vice-Chair of Foreign Affairs, The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Dennis Clark Brazil
as Self - U.S. Army
Jackie Bong Wright
as Self - Saigon, South Vietnam
Do Thi Nhin
as Self - Tien Giang, South Vietnam
Chung Tu Buu
as Self - South Vietnamese Air Force, Prisoner of War
Janet Bui
as Self - Saigon, South Vietnam
Tong Minh Huynh
as Self - Saigon, South Vietnam
Le Ly Hayslip
as Self - Binh Ky Village, Central Vietnam
Nguyen Van Tau
as Self - PAVN
Jan Barry
as Self - Ithaca, New York
Nancy Bui
as Self - Cong Thanh Village, South Vietnam
Larry Zetterberg
as Self - U.S. Navy Pilot
Elizabeth Becker
as Self - Author, When the War Was Over
Ngo Dinh Diem
as Self - First President of South Vietnam
Duc Tho Le
as Self - Chief Negotiator, Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Van Minh Duong
as Self - ARVN
Thi Binh Nguyen
as Self - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, Viet Cong Government
Jennifer Kruse
as Self - South Vietnamese Orphan
Lam Quoc Dung
as Self - National Liberation Front - 'Viet Cong'
Nguyen Huy Hieu
as Self - PAVN
Nguyen Van Thien
as Self - PAVN
John Ghilain
as Self - U.S. Marine Corps
Tony Suarez
as Self - Deputy Chief of Intelligence Collection, Defense Attaché Office
William G. Eckhardt
as Self - U.S. Army Prosecutor
Patrick Paterson
as Self - Maritime Historian
Nguyen Hong Man
as Self - My Lai Resident, 1968
Lacy Wright
as Self - U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Saigon Embassy
Polly Baca
as Self - Public Information Officer Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican-Americans
Shad Meshad
as Self - U.S. Army Medical Services Corps
Karen King-Johnson
as Self - Command Information Officer, U.S. Army
Hugh Doyle
as Self - Chief Engineer, USS Kirk
Tran Mai Huong
as Self - North Vietnamese Photojournalist
Nguyen Huu Thai
as Self - President, Saigon Student Association
Allison Krause
as Self - Killed at Kent State Anti-War Protest
Jeffrey Miller
as Self - Killed at Kent State Anti-War Protest
Sandy Scheuer
as Self - Killed at Kent State Anti-War Protest
Marc Knapper
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
William Schroeder
as Self - Killed at Kent State Anti-War Protest
Pol Pot
as Self - Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Leonid Brezhnev
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union
William Calley
as Self - First Platoon, Charlie Company
Norodom Sihanouk
as Self - Leader of Cambodia
Ron Ridenhour
as Self - U.S. Army
Frank Reynolds
as Self - Anchor, ABC Evening News
Madame Nhu
as Self - De Facto First Lady of Vietnam
Creighton Williams Abrams
as Self - Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam
Duong Minh
as Self - ARVN
Nguyen Duy Trinh
as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Claire Chennault
as Self - U.S. Army
Cao Ky Nguyen
as Self - Vice President of South Vietnam
Richard Salant
as Self - President of CBS News
Jay Roberts
as Self - U.S. Army Reporter
William Terry Main
as Self - U.S. Marine Corps
Ed Rabel
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Jed Duvall
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Melvin Laird
as Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense
William Rogers
as Self - U.S. Secretary of State
Tran Van Lam
as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Vietnam
Duc Quang
as Self - Buddhist Monk
Peter Kalischer
as Self - CBS News Correspondent
Frank Stanton
as Self - President of CBS
Paul D. Harkins
as Self - Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Dinh Nhu Ngo
as Self - Diem's Brother, Commander of the ARVN Special Forces
Graham Martin
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam
Frederick Nolting
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam
Xuân Thuy
as Self - North Vietnamese Delegation
Egil Krogh Jr.
as Self - 'Plumber'
George Jacobson
as Self - Mission Coordinator, U.S. Embassy Saigon
Anna Chennault
as Self - Republican Fundraiser
Nguyen Ngoc Tho
as Self - Prime Minister of South Vietnam
Roswell Gilpatric
as Self - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Ngo Dinh Thuc
as Self - Catholic Archbishop of Hue, Brother of President Diem
George Cox
as Self - Charlie Company
William Deal
as Self - Killed in Action at Ap Bac
Donald Braman
as Self - Killed in Action at Ap Bac
Pham Dang Lam
as Self - South Vietnamese Delegation
Kenneth Good
as Self - Killed in Action at Ap Bac
Joseph A. Mendenhall
as Self - State Department Official
Dave Dugan
as Self - Public Broadcast Laboratory Correspondent
Lewis Fielding
as Self - Daniel Ellsberg's Psychiatrist
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