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Ken Burns has a new series coming up this fall on PBS. You may remember him from the series he did about the Civil War.
THE VIETNAM WAR, a new 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will air in September 2017 on PBS stations nationwide.
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never-before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy. Ken and I have tried to shed new light on the human dimensions of the war by looking at it from the bottom up, the top down and from all sides, Novick said.
Six years in the making, the series brings the war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally to life.
Read more at:
http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/the-vietnam-war-a-new-film-by-ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-to-air-fall-2017-on-pbs/
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)I don't think he could make a bad documentary if he wanted to. All the ones I have seen so far are excellent. The Civil War, Jazz, Prohibition, National Parks, Baseball, The Roosevelt's, The West. All are exceptional.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)It might as well be six hours of fart noises.
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)I'm currently rewatching The Civil War. It's really interesting watching it while at the same time transcribing Union commanders letters and codebooks on Zooniverse.com. Ever since I was little, I loved learning about the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were my always favorite presidents, followed closely by FDR, and now Barrack Obama.
FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)Ken Burns docs are so well researched and well made.
I hope the GenXers watch this series and learn something about our Baby-Boomers times. I've read many posts here on DU that were written by GenXers that demonstrate they have no clue what we went through during that time.
Just sayin'
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Unlike The Civil War it won't be history; it will be memories, many of them painful.
I'm grateful it's being told.
tech3149
(4,452 posts)DOD is trying their best to whitewash the history of Vietnam and throw the bad parts down the memory hole. I would hate to see Burns add to our feel good fantasy version of history.
One historian said an historical event can't be objectively analyzed and described until the generation that lived through it is gone. Probably doubly so for an event as derisive as the Vietnam War.
I think Burns will try to be as balanced as he can.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Yes, it should be told, and I'm sure Ken Burns will do a great job.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)A 13-part series in 1983 on PBS. Sorry, I can't find video for it, but the book it was based on is on Amazon and other sites. I t was a magnificent documentary--I recall watching it religiously. Just outstanding!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)including those who waited in vain for a loved one's return, or those of us who welcomed home a very different person than the one who left.
OTOH......A lot of what we were told as truth was biased reporting, Burns usually gets facts and details straight, and I know he has been working on this a long time.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Ken Burns is a national treasure.