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This Social Scientist's Verdict on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam War Documentary
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The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.
One Episode of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam Documentary Has Been Nominated for an Emmy.
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It doesn't deserve it.
Have We Missed the Big Picture of What Happened in Southeast Asia with Our Laser Focus on Vietnam?
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America lost in Vietnam but won the Cold War beyond it.
Inside the Beltway: Vietnam veterans challenge Ken Burns
The Washington Times
They just aren't comfortable with "The Vietnam War," the ambitious documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, which debuted last month with much fanfare and is still being featured on many PBS stations. Vietnam Veterans for Factual History - a Texas-based interest group which includes military veterans, historians and authors in its membership - is challenging both the content and tone of the 10-episode, 18-hour epic.
Ken Burns' 'The Vietnam War' Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M In Live+7
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers across its 10 nights in Live+7 stats, PBS said today. The epic docu enjoyed a reach of just under 34 million. These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007, PBS boasted.
The Pity of It All
The New York Review of Books
Ken Burns achieved renown with lengthy film histories of the Civil War, World War II, jazz, and baseball, but he describes his documentary The Vietnam War, made in close collaboration with his codirector and coproducer Lynn Novick, as "the most ambitious project we've ever undertaken."
Opinion | How studying the Vietnam War helped me make sense of the Trump era in America
Washington Post
I always planned to spend much of 2017 thinking about the Vietnam War. In the summer of 2016, I began to report a major project on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary about the conflict, which set me up for 15 months of reading all the major books about the war, interviewing soldiers who fought in Vietnam and scholars who studied American involvement there, and even traveling to the country for 17 days in February.
