Oscar winning filmmaker Hugh Welchman (most recently writer/director of Loving Vincent, a fully hand painted film about Vincent van Gogh) takes you on a journey through THE YEAR - 100 years ago, a year that made our world what it is today more than any other, 1918-1919. 12 original stories from 12 remarkable months in the aftermath of World War One.
Episodes
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
The Year Episode 9: Denied a lifetime
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
June 1919: Denied a lifetime
Ho Chi Minh battled for 50 years to free his native land, Vietnam, from foreign domination. First defeating the Japanese, then the French, and then battling the Americans. That journey started 100 years ago in Paris at the Paris Peace Conference, where he was working as a busboy in the Ritz Hotel. In Paris he assumed a new name - Nguyen ai Quoc (Nguyen the patriot)- and started speaking out for independence. It would be another 21 years, and 7 years after he had been officially registered as dead, that he assumed the name Ho Chi Minh (“The Enlightened One”) and the leadership of the Vietnamese resistance army, believing force was the only way that Vietnam would ever achieve its independence. This month’s episode details the start of Ho Chi Minh’s life’s mission while he was clearing up after the diplomats and politicians and bigwigs and the Paris Peace Conference.
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