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Ken Burns, the famous documentary filmmakerVietnam War, which was broadcast on PBS in the United States in 2017, consists of 10 episodes with a total duration of 18 hours. Nearly 80 eyewitnesses from all sides were interviewed, including Americans who participated in the war and opposed the war, as well as soldiers and civilians from South Vietnam and North Vietnam.

The Vietnam War》

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Peter Coyote

Genre: Documentary/War

First broadcast: 2017-09-17 (USA)

Episodes: 10

Douban Rating9.5

The Vietnam War was a war between North Vietnam and the United States and South Vietnam with the support of the Soviet Union and China. It was also the war with the largest number of American participants and the most significant impact after World War II. In the end, the United States was defeated in the Vietnam War. The People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam eventually overthrew the Republic of Vietnam and unified the country.

Among them are many rare and re-digital image archives, the most famous photographs and family movies of the 20th century, as well as historical news clips and secret recordings within the government.

I can finally see a documentary that talks seriously about the Vietnam War. It includes not only interviews with Americans, but also interviews with their opponents at the time, the North Vietnamese armed forces. This is the most in-depth documentary about the Vietnam War that I have seen so far, the most detailed and probably the most neutral one on the attitudes of all parties.

If you have some knowledge of the Vietnam War, then this documentary will string together the famous events in your memory and give you a comprehensive understanding of this bizarre war.

Let's talk about this documentary first. The whole documentary contains a huge amount of information, including interviews with personnel and family members of both sides of the war, recordings and interviews with the decision-makers at the White House at the time, information from war correspondents, and a mixture of black-and-white and color photos/clips throughout the film, which makes the film look full of magical realism;

Especially when the beautiful panorama of Vietnam is mixed with the battlefield full of blood and fire, it is hard to believe that these are real things that happened in history.

The background music, which is a mixture of American music from the 1950s and 1960s, Vietnamese ditties and radio noise, makes the viewer feel extremely involved, as if you are spending happy time with your family in Missouri one moment, and the next moment you are in a jungle where countless Vietcong are lying in ambush. In short, it is impossible to stop watching.

After watching the documentary about the Vietnam War, I began to truly understand how this part, which was downplayed in history textbooks, gradually evolved into a tragedy.

The Vietnam War was like a nightmare. To get rid of it, Americans paid a heavy price. Fortunately, the dream ended. However, the pain brought by this war is still something that all the people who experienced it try their best to avoid. "Only those who don't fight care about winning or losing. In a real war, there is no winning or losing, only destruction," said a Vietnam veteran.

After watching this documentary, I feel ashamed of some of my previous remarks. War is never something that can be taken lightly. Those who always shout for war neither understand the meaning of war nor the cost of war.

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