Ken Burns and Vietnam

     A new documentary series begins this week produced by the dean of American film documentaries: Ken Burns.   Partnering with long time collaborator, Lynn Novick, he has put together a history of that conflict that humbled the USA over 10 years of proxy warfare in South East Asia.  The 10 part, 18 hours long show has aired 2 episodes so far.  These two lay the ground work for what is to come: the horrific landscapes of war with millions of participants struggling for years to gain advantage.   As we will see, the conflict was ultimately concluded with the Communist victory over a satellite proxy state in the south of the coastal country, now known to the world as Viet Nam.