Ten years in the making, “The Vietnam War” is broad and stunning
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/17/ten-years-in-the-making-the-vietnam-war-is-broad-and-stunning/
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick return with another epic series that tells us how who we were then got us to now
Revisiting all of Ken Burns’ distillations of America’s wars would be an illuminating endeavor, if only to see how his storytelling style has evolved and how the nation has transformed along the way. Starting with 1990’s seminal “The Civil War,” pressing onward through 2007’s “The War” (World War II) before finally diving into “The Vietnam War,” premiering Sunday at 8 p.m. on PBS member stations, Burns uses these flashpoints in history to hold a mirror up to America at points of interesting political and social shift...
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