Post by roverpup on Sept 20, 2017 0:20:59 GMT
Anyone watching this?
Dan and I watched the first episode today and it is his best since the Civil War Series I think.
This is something which Dan and I lived through (albeit from a safe distance) but even then it impacted our lives (Dan had friends in high school who were sent to his school in Canada because they didn't want their sons drafted into the armed forces during that time). I marched in protest marches and both of us came politically of age during this tumultuous time.
When it ended I was in my mid-twenties and we both remember the Time magazine cover with the drawing of Ho Chi Minh on it from 1975 declaring him "The Victor" (Dan who has always been a student of history saved the edition).
Burns has done a magnificent job capturing the history of the time right back to the French colonial days to show the roots of the conflict and interspersed it with footage of the American involvement in a series of short cuts to draw parallels to the similarities to both the French and US approaches (even the language both used were almost identical).
I can't wait to see the other segments and to see how he approaches the social and cultural ramifications of this war on not only the American public but also the war. Plus I think it is interesting in many respects that it is also relevent to many of today's current tensions.
:-))
Dan and I watched the first episode today and it is his best since the Civil War Series I think.
This is something which Dan and I lived through (albeit from a safe distance) but even then it impacted our lives (Dan had friends in high school who were sent to his school in Canada because they didn't want their sons drafted into the armed forces during that time). I marched in protest marches and both of us came politically of age during this tumultuous time.
When it ended I was in my mid-twenties and we both remember the Time magazine cover with the drawing of Ho Chi Minh on it from 1975 declaring him "The Victor" (Dan who has always been a student of history saved the edition).
Burns has done a magnificent job capturing the history of the time right back to the French colonial days to show the roots of the conflict and interspersed it with footage of the American involvement in a series of short cuts to draw parallels to the similarities to both the French and US approaches (even the language both used were almost identical).
I can't wait to see the other segments and to see how he approaches the social and cultural ramifications of this war on not only the American public but also the war. Plus I think it is interesting in many respects that it is also relevent to many of today's current tensions.
:-))