Author Topic: Honors and Errors: The Burns Vietnam Documentary (Read 595 times)

rangerrebew · « **on:** January 22, 2018, 09:51:24 am »

Honors and Errors: The Burns Vietnam Documentary
by Keith Nightingale

Journal Article | January 20, 2018 - 5:46am

The recent acclaimed Burns-Novik documentary on Vietnam is great cinematic art but poor history. Unfortunately, with the nano-second emotion/attention mentality of our population, it will be generally judged as THE history. For those that were part of the Vietnam â€œexperience,â€ it lanced old boils while ignoring the root cause of the disease. The series systematically ignores crucial points of fact while emphasizing the emotional points-veterans as victims, the North as righteous warriors and the peace movement as a penultimate demonstration of taking moral high ground. Some of this is right. Much of it is wrong and as â€œhistory,â€ it has huge holes. Hindsight is always that, 20-20 in product but often twisted and distorted by the viewer. Some thoughts not addressed by Burns.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/honors-and-errors-the-burns-vietnam-documentary

Fishrrman · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2018, 01:31:48 am »

"The recent acclaimed Burns-Novik documentary on Vietnam is great cinematic art but poor history. Unfortunately, with the nano-second emotion/attention mentality of our population, it will be generally judged as THE history."

Which is why I didn't watch it.

For the same reason I won't watch the Oliver Stone movies such as "JFK".

I don't want my mind's recollection of history to be "shaped" by these guys.
(Of course, my mind's "recollection" could be wrong as it is!) ;)