The Vietnam War (TV series)
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Written by | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| Directed by | Ken Burns and Lynn Novick |
| Narrated by | Peter Coyote |
| Composer(s) | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Cinematography | Buddy Squires |
| Editor(s) | Tricia Reidy Paul Barnes Erik Ewers Craig Mellish |
| Running time | 1080 mins (18 hours) |
| Distributor | Public Broadcasting Service |
| Release | |
| Original network | Public Broadcasting Service |
| Original release | September 17, 2017 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Vietnam War is a 10-part, 18-hour American television documentary series about the Vietnam War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The first episode premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service on September 17, 2017.
The series cost around $30 million and took more than 10 years to make. It was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who had previously collaborated on The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010) and Prohibition (2011). The production companies were Burns' Florentine Films and WETA-TV in Washington.
The series features interviews with 79 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war or opposed it as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the North and the South." Deliberate attention was taken to avoid "historians or other expert talking heads" and "onscreen interviews with polarizing boldfaced names like John Kerry, John McCain, Henry Kissinger and Jane Fonda." Instead, interviews were intended to provide a ground-up view of the War from the perspective of everyday people who lived through it. Episode 3 features an interview with retired UPI reporter Joseph L. Galloway, who was awarded a Bronze Star with "V" device for assisting with the wounded in the Battle of Ia Drang. Others interviewed included Vincent Okamoto and Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried.
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