The production of the new “The Vietnam War" series, premiering tonight on PBS, was a ten-year process involving hundreds of interviews, in the United States as well as in North and South Vietnam, and some eye-opening revelations on the part of the filmmakers, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. “I lived through the Vietnam War, I was draft eligible towards the end, I thought I knew something about it. I tell you, I don’t recognize the person who began the project (compared to) the person I am now. I had to lose the conventional wisdom about the war,” Burns said in a recent interview. To make the film, Burns, Novick and their team contacted over 1,000 people and interviewed 100 on film; 79 people interviewed for the latter appear in the documentary.

Source: Forbes September 18, 2017 03:56 UTC