Filmmaker Ken Burns spent his youth protesting the Vietnam War. Over 30 years later, Burns and director Lynn Novick embarked on a ten-year journey to bring light to the war’s corruption.

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...