I just finished watching the complete series.
First of all, I’m glad to see I was very wrong, it was a whites-only show.
For most of the episodes, I saw stories I knew slightly, with tons of detail where I just knew the headlines. Nothing was a revelation or surprise to me, and was intensely interesting to hear from people who were there living through it.
I could not finish episode 9. When they covered the story behind the famous photo of the the girl running down the street, burning from napalm, I had to turn it off. I was crying. I took a break for a couple of days before I watched the tenth and final episode.
The final episode offered a little relief with the American and Vietnamese veterans embracing.
The big theme for me is that handfuls of “leaders” in power can ruin the lives of millions for no good reason. The same kind of people who thought Vietnam was a good idea thought Iraq was a good idea and now they pushing for war with Iran or North Korea.