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The Vietnam War is a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses.

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Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans & Vietnamese from all sides seek reconciliation.
John Musgrave is a Marine veteran who counsels active-duty soldiers and veterans.
Funding for The Vietnam War is provided by Bank of America; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; David H. Koch; The Blavatnik Family Foundation; Park Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Ford Foundation Just Films; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and Members of The Better Angels Society: Jonathan & Jeannie Lavine, Diane & Hal Brierley, Amy & David Abrams, John & Catherine Debs, Fullerton Family 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. Sweet III, The Lavender Butterfly Fund
Latest Episodes
Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans & Vietnamese from all sides seek reconciliation.
Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans & Vietnamese from all sides seek reconciliation.
Saigon falls and the war ends. Americans & Vietnamese from all sides seek reconciliation.
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.
Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
Nixon withdraws troops but upon sending forces to Cambodia the antiwar movement reignites.
After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, wins the presidency.
Episodes
After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, wins the presidency.
After chaos roils the Democratic Convention, Nixon, promising peace, wins the presidency.
Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
Shaken by the Tet Offensive, assassinations and unrest, America seems to be coming apart.
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
Extras
America's top critics are unanimous in their praise for The Vietnam War.
President Johnson and Secretary McNamara discuss strategy by phone.
A Marine remembers being afraid when assigned a listening post at night.
President Kennedy dictates his rueful account of the 1963 Coup in Saigon.
A Vietnamese-American comments on being displaced from his country.
Veterans from Vietnam and the United States meet after the war.
On November 15, 1969, half a million gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the war.
A captured Army doctor recounts his experience of being taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.
A Marine describes his heartbreak at returning home to face angry protesters.
A South Vietnamese woman researches the communist movement in her country.
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