Pbs.org When Will Ken Burns Vietnam War Air Again
Marines marching in Danang. March 15, 1965
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A Landmark Documentary Effect by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
ARLINGTON, VA; April 12, 2017 -- THE VIETNAM State of war, a new 10-office, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will premiere September 17, 2017, on PBS stations nationwide. The showtime v episodes will air nightly from Sunday, September 17, through Thursday, September 21, and the concluding 5 episodes will air nightly from Dominicus, September 24, through Th, September 28. Each episode volition premiere at viii:00 p.m. ET with a echo broadcast immediately following the premiere (bank check local listings).
Start Tuesday, Oct iii, the series volition re-air on a weekly basis through November 28, at 9:00 p.thousand. ET (check local listings).
On September 17, concurrent with the broadcast premiere, the start v episodes of THE VIETNAM WAR will be bachelor for streaming on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and PBS apps for iOS, Android, Roku, Apple Tv set, Amazon Burn Goggle box and Chromecast, and the final five episodes will be available get-go September 24. All episodes will remain accessible until October 3, when the series begins its weekly rebroadcast. During the rebroadcast period, each episode volition be bachelor to stream for ii weeks. PBS station members with Passport, a benefit for donors, offering extended admission to a rich library of public television programming can view the unabridged series (all 10 episodes) beginning September 17 (contact your local PBS station for details). The serial will too be available in Castilian and Vietnamese on streaming.
A trailer for the picture show is bachelor here.
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War equally it has never earlier been told on motion-picture show. THE VIETNAM War features testimony from nearly lxxx witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed information technology, too every bit Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides (encounter clips here).
"The Vietnam War was a decade of agony that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans," Burns said. "Non since the Civil War have nosotros as a land been so torn autonomously. At that place wasn't an American alive then who wasn't afflicted in some way — from those who fought and sacrificed in the war, to families of service members and POWs, to those who protested the state of war in open disharmonize with their government and fellow citizens. More than than 40 years after information technology ended, we tin't forget Vietnam, and we are still arguing about why it went wrong, who was to blame and whether it was all worth it."
"We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy. Ken and I have tried to shed new light on the war by looking at it from the bottom up, the summit downwards and from all sides," Novick said. "In addition to dozens of Americans who shared their stories, we interviewed many Vietnamese on both the winning and losing sides, and were surprised to acquire that the war remains as painful and unresolved for them as it is for u.s.. Inside this almost incomprehensibly subversive event, we discovered profound, universal human being truths, as well as uncanny resonances with recent events."
X years in the making, the serial brings the state of war and the cluttered epoch it encompassed viscerally to life. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, produced past Sarah Botstein, Novick and Burns, it includes rarely seen, digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the xxth century, historic television broadcasts, evocative dwelling house movies, and revelatory audio recordings from within the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.
THE VIETNAM WAR features new, original music written and recorded past University Honor-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The motion-picture show also features new music arranged and performed by Grammy Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. Information technology is the kickoff time Burns and Novick accept worked with Reznor and Ross, as well as with Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble. Additional music in the movie was equanimous by David Cieri and Doug Wamble, both of whom are longtime collaborators with Florentine Films.
The series also features more than 120 popular songs that define the era, including tracks from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Ben E. Male monarch, Phil Ochs, Donovan, Johnny Cash, Barry McGuire, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Otis Redding, Santana, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, The Temptations, Booker T. and the M.Grand.s, Pete Seeger and more than.
"Always since THE CIVIL WAR, Ken and Lynn have been behind some of the well-nigh of import documentary films always shown on television, films that accept in fact made television history and created national conversations around who we are every bit Americans," said Beth Hoppe, Chief Programming Executive and Full general Manager, General Audience Programming, PBS. "THE VIETNAM WAR stands out as an unmatched documentary accomplishment about one of the most transformative periods in modern American history. Through our comprehensive broadcast and streaming schedules, likewise as our outreach efforts, our goal is to reach as many people as possible to spark a national discussion nearly the issues raised in the series, in a way that but public goggle box can."
The flick volition be accompanied by an outreach and public date plan, providing opportunities — facilitated by public boob tube stations — for communities to participate in a national conversation about what happened during the Vietnam State of war, what went wrong and what lessons are to be learned. In addition, there will be a robust interactive website and an educational initiative designed to appoint teachers and students through multiple platforms, including PBS LearningMedia.
Viewers are encouraged to bring together the conversation: #VietnamWarPBS
THE VIETNAM War rounds out a trilogy of Florentine Films' exploration of American wars that began with Burns'southward landmark series, THE Civil War (1990), followed by Burns and Novick'due south acclaimed vii-part series about the World War 2, THE State of war (2007).
Accompanying the serial will be a companion book — written past Geoffrey C. Ward, with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick — that will be published by Alfred A. Knopf, Burns'south longtime publisher, on September 5.
THE VIETNAM War will be bachelor on Blu-ray and DVD on September 19, 2017 from PBS Distribution at shopPBS.org. The DVD and Blu-ray extras include a 45-minute preview program, ii special segments on the contemporary lives of 2 of the program's participants, and deleted scenes. The serial will besides be bachelor for digital download.
Funding for THE VIETNAM WAR is provided past Bank of America; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; PBS; David H. Koch; The Blavatnik Family unit Foundation; Park Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The John South. and James L. Knight Foundation; The Andrew Due west. Mellon Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Ford Foundation Just Films; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and
Members of The Better Angels Guild:
Jonathan & Jeannie Lavine, Diane & Hal Brierley, Amy & David Abrams, John & Catherine Debs, Fullerton Family unit Charitable Fund, The Montrone Family, Lynda & Stewart Resnick, The Golkin Family Foundation, The Lynch Foundation, The Roger & Rosemary Enrico Foundation, Richard S. & Donna L. Strong Foundation, Bonnie & Tom McCloskey, Barbara K. & Cyrus B. Sugariness III, The Lavender Butterfly Fund.
THE VIETNAM State of war is a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, DC. Directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward. Produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick and Ken Burns.
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