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The American War

The American War


The American War

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Length:
11 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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A podcast guide to "The Vietnam War," the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Washington Post Opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg breaks down each episode of the film with Burns and Novick themselves, getting the story behind the stories, and grappling with the lessons the United States learned -- and failed to learn -- in Vietnam and at home. Listen after you watch each episode of "The Vietnam War" for a new perspective on how the film was made and what it all means.
Language:
English
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Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 11 episodes

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Episode 10: “Let it be.”

“The Vietnam War” begins with Henry Kissinger’s call to put Vietnam behind us. It ends ...

23 minutes
Sep 29, 2017

Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”

Some soldiers in Vietnam fought bravely, and then came home to oppose the war they’d se...

23 minutes
Sep 28, 2017

Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”

The Kent State massacre was one of the most searing domestic moments of the antiwar mov...

28 minutes
Sep 27, 2017

Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”

In America, the My Lai massacre helped turn Americans against the war, while in Vietnam...

26 minutes
Sep 26, 2017

Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”

The Vietnam War produced indelible wartime photography. “The Vietnam War” takes a close...

21 minutes
Sep 25, 2017

Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”

As African Americans fought for their rights at home, anti-Asian racism shaped American...

20 minutes
Sep 22, 2017

Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”

Many of the Gold Star parents who lost their children in Vietnam are aging, and as they...

22 minutes
Sep 21, 2017

Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”

To truly understand what happened to America in Vietnam, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick knew...

22 minutes
Sep 20, 2017

Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

It’s easy to say now that the Vietnam War was always a doomed endeavor. But Americans w...

22 minutes
Sep 19, 2017

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard pr...

22 minutes
Sep 18, 2017