Vietnam Cycle watch order
There are 4 Vietnam Cycle films, about 3.9 hours in total. The first was released in 1976, the latest in 1977. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Documentary cycle by Heynowski and Scheumann
- 1
Devil's Island (1976)
28 Apr 1976 · 61 min
Le Quang Vinh, a revolutionary student leader, was arrested in Saigon in August 1961. A show trial and death sentence followed. World-wide protests altered it to “life imprisonment” on Con Son, the Devil’s Island. The humiliating “Tiger-Cages” and the methods of torture are shown.
- 2
And Then the First Rice (1977)
9 Feb 1977 · 58 min
Stories from the first summer after the end of the war in Vietnam
- 3
I Sincerely Repent (1977)
30 Mar 1977 · 54 min
Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.
- 4
The Iron Fortress (1977)
20 Nov 1977 · 60 min
Weeks after the victory in Vietnam, first pictures of a new humanity are captured: old and sick people preparing for their future, children on their way to school.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.