Ken Burns made 18 hours on Vietnam—this is the story behind the trauma.
Go behind-the-scenes of the epic series with Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and the filmmaking team. Hosted by Tom Brokaw, the program includes interviews with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and veteran stories generated by PBS stations across the country.
Direction
Burns and Novick dissect their own 10-year creative odyssey.
Writing
Unscripted admissions of what they got wrong and feared.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
PBS stations collected veteran stories nationwide, creating one of the largest oral history archives of the war.
Burns reveals he suffered nightmares during production, realizing the series was 're-traumatizing' his team.
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