Case Study: Vietnam

When producer Dave Flitton was putting together the 12-hour series Battlefield Vietnam in 1998 for Edinburgh-based Lamancha Productions, he knew he would have to go beyond the usual footage archives in order to get the whole story. 'Previously, very little footage of the Communists in Vietnam was available, guaranteeing that programs about the war were one-sided,' Flitton says.

July 1, 2001

When producer Dave Flitton was putting together the 12-hour series Battlefield Vietnam in 1998 for Edinburgh-based Lamancha Productions, he knew he would have to go beyond the usual footage archives in order to get the whole story. 'Previously, very little footage of the Communists in Vietnam was available, guaranteeing that programs about the war were one-sided,' Flitton says.