The American War
By The Washington Post
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Episodes: 22
Description
A podcast guide to "The Vietnam War," the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Washington Post Opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg breaks down each episode of the film with Burns and Novick themselves, getting the story behind the stories, and grappling with the lessons the United States learned -- and failed to learn -- in Vietnam and at home. Listen after you watch each episode of "The Vietnam War" for a new perspective on how the film was made and what it all means.
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Episode 10: “Let it be.”
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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Preview: 'The American War,' a podcast guide to the new PBS documentary 'The Vietnam War'
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Sep 11, 2017 |