The Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam Documentary Has Been Nominated for an Emmy in Several Categories
It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.
In a critique I wrote last fall of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, I took the filmmakers to task for failing to expose the essential and damning truth of Vietnam: that the U.S. instigated a war of aggression that resulted in the deaths of three million Vietnamese, including more than 2 million civilians.
Now, it’s Emmy season and, while The Vietnam War has been passed over in the nominations for exceptional merit in documentary filmmaking... Читать дальше...