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Finished watching Ken Burns' Vietnam series last night
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:50 pm
I watched it two years ago and was just as moved by its breadth of information and narrative as I was then.
GoaT documentarian.
GoaT documentarian.
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Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:51 pm to AlonsoWDC
I've enjoyed some of his work very much. I might have to try this one tonight. Where did you watch it?
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:52 pm to AlonsoWDC
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GoaT documentarian
Truth
I like Civil War and Baseball more though.
He didn’t go far enough into just how fricking bad LBJ and McNamara bungled Nam, imo.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:52 pm to fallguy_1978
It's on Netflix.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:52 pm to AlonsoWDC
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It's on Netflix.
Thanks
Posted on 5/3/20 at 4:03 pm to AlonsoWDC
Props to the photographers, reporters, video recorders.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 6:18 pm to AlonsoWDC
That was an amazing doc. Some of their stories were really harrowing. The ending was kind of emotional for me as well.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 6:45 pm to AlonsoWDC
It really is a great documentary. And it is surely a telling example of the devastation that a president (in this case 3 presidents: JFK, LBJ, and nixon) can unleash on us when they decide their political clout and ambitions are more important than the individual lives of the American people.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 6:47 pm to AlonsoWDC
Every American should watch it.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 7:19 pm to AlonsoWDC
Never thought I'd understand the Vietnam War despite reading those Time Life books growing up.
And then Ken Burns comes along.
So in depth but approachable.
Really is a great storyteller.
And then Ken Burns comes along.
So in depth but approachable.
Really is a great storyteller.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 7:51 pm to AlonsoWDC
I really like it. There were plenty on this board that thought it was too leftist and showed the war protesters too much sympathy.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 7:52 pm to AlonsoWDC
Friend,
Of all the Burns' brother documentaries, I thought this Vietnam was the least enjoyable. It was educational, but I feel it was a little longer than warranted. Nothing will ever touch his Civil War documentary.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Of all the Burns' brother documentaries, I thought this Vietnam was the least enjoyable. It was educational, but I feel it was a little longer than warranted. Nothing will ever touch his Civil War documentary.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 5/3/20 at 7:59 pm to TulaneLSU
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Nothing will ever touch his Civil War documentary.
His Civil War “documentary” is Yankee propaganda. Completely biased and unwatchable.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 8:07 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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His Civil War “documentary” is Yankee propaganda. Completely biased and unwatchable
Wut?
His #1 contributor to the series was Shelby Foote who was accused of being a Southern sympathizer (he was a Southerner during Segregation) and for romanticizing the Antebellum South and reviving The Lost Cause mythology in his 3 part books...
Of which the entire Civil War documentary is based on - Shelby Foote's 3-tome Narrative.
There is nothing in the series that treats the South unfairly unless you believe in fairies and pixies too.
Shelby Foote wrote the definitive narrative on the Civil War and he bent over backwards to put the South in a good light.
I don't know what you could get from the series that is "completely biased" or propaganda.
Sounds like you've been reading too much propaganda yourself that no real historian would agree with.
This post was edited on 5/3/20 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 5/3/20 at 8:10 pm to AlonsoWDC
Ken Burns is the best, no doubt.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 8:17 pm to Shiftyplus1
Should listen to the
Posted on 5/3/20 at 8:22 pm to pilsnerpusher
I really liked it. I thought it was even-handed. I thought the greatest revelation (to me, I guess others knew this already) were the recordings of LBJ-Nixon telephone calls. Nixon has secretly called the S. Viet. President, telling him to delay the Paris Peace talks until he was elected. LBJ knew this through wiretaps, but couldn’t reveal it because the wiretaps were illegal and would have betrayed our ally in Saigon. Nixon assures LBJ ( lying and LBJ knew it) that he supported a peace treaty. While President, Nixon and Kissinger pursued “peace with honor”. Lying bastard. How many lives were lost in his futile delay for political gain.
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