《越南战争 The Vietnam War》

著名纪录片导演肯·伯恩斯的越南战争纪录片，于2017年在美国PBS电视台播出，共10集，总时长有18小时，采访了来自各方的近80名亲历者，既有参战与反战的美国人，也有南越与北越的军民。本片历经十年制作，跨遍全球搜集资料，其中有许多少见和重新数字化的影像档案，还有20世纪最为出名的摄影照片和家庭影视，以及历史新闻片段和政府内部的秘密录音。 随着PBS推出纪录片《越南战争》，我们得以回顾那个分裂的年代。对于在那段时间内生活的人来说，这段时期将永远印在他们心中。约翰逊总统在南越将杰出服务十字架授予南越Cam Ranh湾第一中尉。 从1962年到1971年，美国军方在越南森林上喷洒化学试剂——脱叶剂，这种落叶剂是为了将越南长得茂盛的树林，使其变得光秃秃，这样就让北越的军队失去了天然的隐蔽屏障。落叶剂对环境的危害极大。其危害表现一是因大面积植被的破坏而危及该地区整个生态系统，二是这种农药的致畸作用会使人类健康受到严重影响。 Ken Burns and Lynn Novick"s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides-Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. THE VIETNAM WAR features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from greatest artists of the era and haunting original music from ... 保持了一贯水准。比 Prohibition 和 The Civil War 成就更高的佳作。一个这么困难的题材，看起来却没有“导演好难”的感觉，因为对所有人物带有深深的理解之同情。地球东西，国家南北，所有人义无反顾、驷马难追地一起奋力奔向悲剧。