"The Veneer of Civilization (PBS)/Chasing Ghosts (BBC)" (June 1968 – May 1969) "Things Fall Apart" (January 1968 – July 1968) "This Is What We Do" (July 1967 – December 1967) "The River Styx (PBS)/Hell Come To Earth (BBC)" (January 1964 – December 1965) The Viet Cong score a major victory at the Battle of Ap Bac. Within the series' 17-and-a-quarter-hours, there are scenes covering 25 battles, ten of which are detailed scenes documenting and describing the action from a number of perspectives. The researchers for the film also accessed more than 24,000 photographs and examined 1,500 hours of archival footage. Others interviewed include Vincent Okamoto, Karl Marlantes, and Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, a popular collection of linked short stories about the war. Galloway, who was awarded a Bronze Star with "V" device for assisting with the wounded in the Battle of Ia Drang. The third episode features an interview with retired UPI reporter Joseph L.
Burns deliberately avoided "historians or other expert talking heads" and "onscreen interviews with polarizing boldfaced names like John Kerry, John McCain, Henry Kissinger and Jane Fonda." Instead, interviews were intended to provide a ground-up view of the War from the perspective of everyday people who lived through it. The series features interviews with 79 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war or opposed it as Anti-war protesters, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the North and the South. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The production companies were WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., and Burns' Florentine Films. It was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who had previously collaborated on The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010), and Prohibition (2011). The series cost around $30 million and took more than 10 years to make. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV-MA rating. The script is by Geoffrey Ward, and the series is narrated by Peter Coyote. The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. Ward and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The Vietnam War is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War written by Geoffrey C. American TV series or program The Vietnam War
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