The Vietnam War

The PBS series has 10 episodes and premiered in 2017. It runs around 18 hours total, which gives space to American, North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, and civilian accounts.

No. Burns and Novick include interviews with U.S. veterans, North Vietnamese soldiers, South Vietnamese participants, journalists, officials, and civilians. That multi-sided structure is one reason it differs from many older Vietnam War documentaries.

The series covers the roots of the conflict in French Indochina, the major U.S. combat years, the 1975 fall of Saigon, and the aftermath. It is not limited to the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon years.

The original score includes music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The soundtrack also uses period songs from artists such as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and Creedence Clearwater Revival to anchor the 1960s and 1970s context.