“This documentary, disconcertingly, starts with an untruth…”
10 years in the making, 18 hours long and costing $30million, Ken Burns’ documentary series The Vietnam War is undoubtedly a huge cultural event, but is it simply another American history of the war?
To discuss all this, Tariq sat down with Rod Stoneman, a former commissioning editor for Channel 4, and anthropologist Prof. Heonik Kwon, who studied the impact of atrocities on Vietnamese villagers.
