The Sixties Project, sponsored by Viet Nam Generation Inc. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, is dedicated to using electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the 1960s. Produced by Media Services Unit, University of Southern Queensland, directed by Bruce Horsfield and Julianne Steward. Produced by the Media Services Unit at the University of Southern Queensland, primarily by academics Dr. Bruce Horsfield and Julianne Stewart, the film is conventional in its documentary style. It uses a range of interviews with participants and commentators from both sides to present and oral, chronological account of the battle. However, it is unlikely that the archival visuals we see are actually the events being spoken about.
Contemporary footage is shot in color.
The ATF had decided to base itself at Nui Dat, in the middle of VC supply routes. VC officers acknowledge that the Australian troops were a superior antiguerrilla force to U.S. troops. Phuoc Tuy reverted to being a strong VC province once the ATF left. This level of doublespeak on the one hand minimized any acknowledgment of the likelihood and scale of fighting to be expected, and on the other hand, when such substantial conflict appeared imminent, constrained the response available. At that time there was no expectation of either an attack on the base or of a battle.