Alicia I love this movie so much

Clevercell Very disappointing...

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

horatioe It's only fitting that the most controversial war and one of the most divided times of our country be represented in the most superb documentary ever made.As a child of the 70's, I often wondered why we were there and what went wrong for America in the Vietnam war. This documentary explains it thoroughly and oftentimes painfully, but honestly.

Straight-Up I thought I was tripping out, but they reused scenes from other episodes. Still interesting to watch.

cdpdirector Ken, (may I call you Ken?) and Lynn (if I may be so bold), have created...yet another...masterpiece. I've watched most of Ken's (may I call you Ken?) documentaries from start to my next birthday and rant to everyone I know how awesome that show was...still is, and have come to this conclusion; Any educational and/or historical curriculum that doesn't include every Ken Burns documentary is worthless. It just doesn't get any better... until... Lynn (if I may be so bold) gets involved. 48 hours ago I started watching "The War", then immediately began "The Vietnam War"... They are both jaw draw-dropping. Like the 4-minute mile, they have set a new standard for documentaries. I've experienced 40 years of commentary on these conflagrations, yet still learn something new. ...this dedication eschews 4 thousand words... however, in context, the first 9 minutes of episode 7 is potentially... hands down... the best... EVER!that's it, that's all I got... it's not even mine.... this is how we all learn... love...

Leofwine_draca THE VIETNAM WAR is another exemplary documentary series from producer Ken Burns; I would call it his best yet, but when he's done so many good ones - including the Roosevelts and WW2 - it's difficult to say that. Certainly this is a moving, engaging piece of filmmaking that had me in tears more than once. It's a lengthy, thorough chronological account of the war in Vietnam, from French colonial times through to the fall of Saigon and beyond, and it's told by the men who were there fighting in the front line, from the American, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese perspectives. Given that this was a modern war, there's a whole wealth of filmed footage to accompany the interviews and Peter Coyote's splendid narration; the end result can't be bettered and really does tell you everything you could ever need to know.