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The brilliant, infuriating, boring, hypnotic Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War
The documentarian’s latest miniseries for PBS is a staggering achievement — and maybe his best work.<p>The projects of Ken Burns are designed to illuminate the past and, thereby, illuminate the present. You can’t watch, say, <i>The Civil War</i> and not see the barely papered-over fault lines that still exist …
Vietnam War‘The Vietnam War’ Review: Ken Burn’s Exhaustive Conflict Biography Shows How to Learn from History’s Errors
Burns and Lynn Novick's 18-hour documentary series is an incisive investigation of the nature of conflict and the lessons we value after war is waged.<p>…
EntertainmentTen 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 were were then got us to now<p>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 …
Liberal ViewMcCain Wanted To See One Specific Part Of The New Documentary Series, 'The Vietnam War'
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new 18-hour documentary series, “The Vietnam War,” premieres Sunday on PBS, and it feels as searingly immediate as it is …
Vietnam WarDemi Lovato Will Answer Questions About Her Sexuality in Her Upcoming Documentary
Demi Lovato, who is currently embracing singledom, is no stranger to speculation about her dating life. For the most part, however, the “Sorry Not Sorry” singer has remained largely coy when it comes to answering questions about her sexuality, particularly in the wake of her hit track, “Cool for …
Demi LovatoPopPolitics: Ken Burns on Why It’s Important to Compare Vietnam Era to Today (Listen)
WASHINGTON — Ken Burns, the co-director of the PBS documentary series “The Vietnam War,” runs through a list of a half dozen crisis points that are …
Vietnam WarThis filmmaker spent two years embedded with the Oakland Police Department
Don’t look to <i>The Force</i> for a scathing critique of the Oakland Police Department. You won’t find it here. But Oakland director Peter Nicks, starting …
Liberal ViewDocumentarian Ken Burns on How Vietnam Explains the Current Political Moment
<b>Q: Why should we be talking about Vietnam now?</b><p>A: We think it's the most important event in American history in the second half of the 20th century. …
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War: A film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
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Vietnam WarQ&A with Ken Burns: 'What I do for a living is wake the dead'
LOS ANGELES – If President Trump wants to turn around his ratings, he might consider nominating Ken Burns as secretary of education.<p>Not that the …
EntertainmentPay attention to Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ on PBS, there's much to learn
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who a decade ago co-directed "The War," about World War II, have now made "The Vietnam War."<p>Written — like that series and other Burns projects running back to "The Civil War" — by Geoffrey C. Ward, it begins Sunday on PBS, with 10 episodes running some 18 hours.<p>The …
HistoryDocumentary: Car Crash – The DeLorean Story
Reading time: about 1 minute.<p>Cars<br>• Films<p><i>Car Crash – The DeLorean Story</i> is a documentary about the DeLorean DMC-12 and the man behind it – the …
'American Vandal' is the fake true-crime series we never knew we needed
On paper, Netflix's <i>American Vandal</i> sounds like a Funny or Die skit that would be amusing for about seven minutes before the joke wore out its welcome. Full disclosure: I almost dismissed it for precisely that reason, before sitting down to watch the season when Netflix made it available for …
EntertainmentKen Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War Will Change the Way You Think of America
The legendary filmmakers talk to GQ about their incredibly ambitions 18-hour documentary and how the war was a failure of human behavior on every level.<p>“The veneer of civilization is very thin.” Those are the words of one veteran interviewed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for <i>The Vietnam War</i>, a new …
History'Time heals most wounds': Ken Burns returns to tell story of the Vietnam war
Alongside co-director Lynn Novick, the groundbreaking documentarian considers lessons for Trump’s divided America in a new documentary<p>Ken Burns surveyed the audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington and asked that anyone who served in the Vietnam war stand up. To prolonged applause dozens rose, …
News (U.S.)A “Harry Potter” documentary is coming, and we’re ready to return to Hogwarts
Calling all Potterheads! The BBC has announced that there is going to be more <i>Harry Potter</i> content for us to enjoy. The network will release a …
Harry PotterKen Burns And Lynn Novick On 'The Vietnam War'
The epic story of the Vietnam War is told in a new 10-part series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. They talk with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
World NewsHow a Livermore vet helped Ken Burns bring the Vietnam War back to life
Rion Causey was 19, a wide-eyed kid from Chadbourn, North Carolina, when he arrived in Vietnam as an Army medic in September 1967. He wasn’t there …
The 20 Best Documentaries You Can Watch for Free on YouTube
YouTube documentaries are proof that the age-old idiom “the truth is stranger than fiction” often still applies.<p>Documentary filmmaking itself has …
The Flesh-Eating Cannibal Who Walked Free
In 1981, Issei Sagawa shot a beautiful Dutch woman and cannibalized her to, in his words, consume her energy. He is the subject of a disturbing new documentary.<p>Does the world truly need a graphic documentary devoted to the life of Issei Sagawa, a notorious Japanese murderer who shot and …
Culture10 True Crime Shows to Watch This Fall
From a missing D.C. intern to evil twins to the latest take on Robert Durst, the best true-crime shows to watch out for<p>Sorry, <i>Making a Murderer</i> fans – …
Ken Burns’s Feel-Bad “Vietnam War”
When Ken Burns’s eleven-hour documentary <i>The Civil War</i> aired on PBS in 1990, more than forty million Americans tuned in. Not to knock the …
New York CityHow creating an 18-hour documentary 'exploded' Ken Burns' interpretation of the Vietnam War
It’s easy to take Ken Burns’ trailblazing documentary work for granted: Every few years, the seminal filmmaker, 64, releases another multi-part epic about some facet of American history — baseball, jazz, the national parks — that’s both vividly engaging and academically definitive. And, of course, …
EntertainmentKen Burns’ ‘Vietnam War’ Sparks International Interest
Last month, director Ken Burns and Lynn Novick traveled to Vietnam with their new documentary about the American war there. The filmmakers had …
Celebrity NewsWhat's the Story With That Place? The Underground Scientology Vault Near Petrolia
What’s the Story With That Place? The Underground Scientology Vault Near Petrolia<p><i>A drone-captured image of the entrance to an underground archival</i> …
L. Ron HubbardNetflix to Premiere the Tragic Documentary, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
On October 6, Netflix will globally premiere <i>The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson</i>, directed by Oscar-nominated documentarian, David France. The …
African-American NewsNetflix Documentaries to Fall Asleep to: An Illustrated Guide
Written and illustrated by Kelly O’Grady<p>As children, our parents read us bedtime stories to send us to dreamland, but as adults we really don’t have …
San Francisco Bay AreaNetflix satirizes itself with 'American Vandal,' a mockumentary about true-crime obsession and shows like 'Making a Murderer'
I didn't count how many times the word d--k is said in Netflix's new original series "American Vandal," but it's a lot.<p>The documentary-style series — which debuts on Netflix Friday — satirizes the serious true crime documentaries like Netflix’s own "Making a Murderer" and HBO’s "The Jinx."<p>Since the …
EntertainmentCome Meet A Living Icon and Own Some of Iris Apfel’s Personal Jewelry | Times Square Chronicles
Come Meet A Living Icon and Own Some of Iris Apfel’s Personal Jewelry<p>Iris Apfel<p>Iris Apfel is an American businesswoman, interior designer, and …
'The Vietnam War': Inside Ken Burns' 18-Hour Doc on the Era-Defining Conflict
How this 10-episode, 10-years-in-the-making docuseries will completely reshape your perspective on the war that divided the Sixties<p>There's a moment …
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