The Washington Post says it is a masterpiece and a model for assessing our history. Here is a look at the trailer. Shutthink the vietnam war a stake into the heart of america. We have never moved far away from that. We never recovered. There was no way we could avoid telling this story. Wars are revealing. It is the worst of humanity but also the best of humanity. There has been a lot done on this subject. Documentaries, feature films, novels. It is not like not have ever tried but it remains a piece of Unfinished Business and American History. And it isades past important to go back and try to understand it. The heroes are the men that side. Their loyalty and courage under fire. It was phenomenal. You would ask itself how does america produce young man like this . We wanted to get to know the people and the place and spend time there. Try to figure out how we do what we do and vietnam was a challenge. One american side. In vietnam, there is a winning side there is a losing side. They
Vietnam. A good time now, the decades have passed. We have always felt that in any kind of historical presentation you have to have 25 or 30 years perspective, the kind of try angulation that can take place from that pass age of time. Rose burns, novick and a remarkable 18 hour series on the vietnam war, for the hour. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. Is and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ken burns an lynn novick are here to introduce their pbs series about the vietnam war. More than 40 years after the war ended americans are still struggling to make sense of it. The war lasted more than a decade and cost its lives of 58,000 americans and 3. 4 million vietnamese. It divided the country like no conflict since the civil war. The film by ken and lynn look back at those cataclysmic y
Vietnam. A good time now, the decades have passed. We have always felt that in any kind of historical presentation you have to have 25 or 30 years perspective, the kind of try angulation that can take place from that pass age of time. Rose burns, novick and a remarkable 18 hour series on the vietnam war, for the hour. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. Is and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ken burns an lynn novick are here to introduce their pbs series about the vietnam war. More than 40 years after the war ended americans are still struggling to make sense of it. The war lasted more than a decade and cost its lives of 58,000 americans and 3. 4 million vietnamese. It divided the country like no conflict since the civil war. The film by ken and lynn look back at those cataclysmic y
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