"(The filmmakers) kept certain things viewable. There's a lot of little things that went down you don't want to know about." — North Charleston veteran Eugene E. Coakley, who was an Air Force avionics ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses -- alienation, a lack of civil discourse, mistrust of government and ...

People like to say that history repeats itself, but Ken Burns isn’t buying it. “Every event is new and unique,” documentarian Burns says. “What doesn’t change is human nature. Human nature stays the ...

The last in the series. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as a scoop or not, but I don’t believe I’ve seen Burns say that he plans to make a Vietnam documentary elsewhere (not that I’ve scoured all ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil War and World War II. Now he’s tracking the mother of those wars, the war ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

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