{"id":40158,"date":"2017-09-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40158"},"modified":"2017-09-13T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:22:24","slug":"ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-the-vietnam-war-is-the-key-to-understanding-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/ken-burns-and-lynn-novick-the-vietnam-war-is-the-key-to-understanding-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: The Vietnam War Is the Key to Understanding America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i4ACye16wfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 13 Sep 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nick Gillespie interviews Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their new documentary series: <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnam War led to more than 1.3 million deaths and it&#8217;s one of the most divisive, painful, and poorly understood episodes in American history. <\/p>\n<p>Documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have spent the past decade making a film that aims to exhume the war&#8217;s buried history. Their 10-part series, which premieres on PBS next week, is a comprehensive look at the secrecy, disinformation, and spin surrounding Vietnam, and its lasting impact on two nations. The 18-hour film combines never-before-seen historical footage, with testimonies from nearly 80 witnesses, including soldiers on both sides of the conflict, leaders of the protest movement, and civilians from North and South Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>A two-time Academy Award winner, Burns is among the most celebrated documentary filmmakers of our time, best-known for the 1990 PBS miniseries <em>The Civil War<\/em>, which drew a television viewership of 40 million. He and Novick are longtime collaborators, and in 2011 she co-directed and produced <em>Prohibition<\/em> with Burns. In 2011, Reason&#8217;s Nick Gillespie interviewed Burns that film and the role of public television in underwriting his work. <\/p>\n<p>With the release of <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, Gillespie sat down with Burns and Novick to talk about the decade-long process of making their new film, and why understanding what happened in Vietnam is essential to interpreting American life today. <\/p>\n<p>Produced by Todd Krainin. Cameras by Meredith Bragg, Mark McDaniel, and Krainin. <\/p>\n<p>Full interview transcript available at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2x0e5U4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2x0e5U4<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 13 Sep 2017 Nick Gillespie interviews Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their new documentary series: The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War led to more than 1.3 million deaths and it&#8217;s one of the most divisive, painful, and poorly understood episodes in American history. 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