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When The Vietnam War premiered on PBS in September 2017 it heralded, as with all Ken Burns, Lynn Novick productions, a moment of national reflection on the past. Ten years in the making, it was designed in its scale (ten episodes, eighteen hours), its soundtrack rich with Big Chill-generation standards, and its production values to resonate with as wide an audience as possible and to stand as a monument of the documentarian's art. Viewers could order a companion volume authored by Geoffrey Ward and online they could view it in Spanish, Vietnamese, or Explicit Language versions. PBS offered teachers free DVDs along with lesson plans and discussion.
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