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April 30 will mark 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, but the battle with Agent Orange, a chemical used by US forces during the conflict, continues.

In one video, a former marine describes how a sergeant hit him on his first night in Vietnam because he assumed he was Vietnamese

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly 900 Americans. Hours later, on April 30, Saigon fell, and with it came the end of…

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay in ruins. Forests that had boasted hundreds of species were reduced to dried-out fragments, overgrown with invasive…

Today, around 3 million people, including many children, still suffer serious health issues associated with exposure to Agent Orange.

The chemical ghost of the herbicide used by US forces still haunts generations

The Vietnam War produced some of the most classic films of the late 1970s and 1980s

On the anniversary of Liberation Day, members of Australia’s Vietnamese community look back at the sacrifices made in pursuit of ‘a good life’

Some of those involved in ‘Operation Babylift’ recall the events – and what happened to the children after.

The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn't only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy