The Documentary “The Vietnam War”: Artistic License as History

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The Documentary “The Vietnam War”: Artistic License as History
by W. R. Baker

SWJ Blog Post | October 1, 2017 - 6:03am
 
As time creeps or races by, those who experienced the Vietnam War are fading from the scene and it’s becoming increasingly important to record a history of that war that is truthful.  Increasingly, the written word is being tossed aside in favor of film and the “documentary” – both allow for “artistic license” instead of facts.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick took $30 million and ten years and used only 80 interviews that, like some others have said, tell how America was wrong, while the communist bloc with the American protestors and politicians were right all along.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-documentary-%E2%80%9Cthe-vietnam-war%E2%80%9D-artistic-license-as-history

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"Increasingly, the written word is being tossed aside in favor of film and the “documentary” – both allow for “artistic license” instead of facts."

That's why I won't watch these things.

OK, I watched "the Civil War" series (it had good music).

But the rest of them... no thanks.