The American War
by The Washington Post
September 29, 2017 5:00 pm
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.
Recent Episodes
Episode 10: “Let it be.”
7 years agoEpisode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”
7 years agoEpisode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”
7 years agoEpisode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”
7 years agoEpisode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”
7 years agoEpisode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”
7 years agoEpisode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”
7 years agoEpisode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”
7 years agoEpisode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”
7 years agoEpisode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”
7 years ago