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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Sept 21, 2017 13:09:13 GMT -7
Finished episode 2 last night. Typical Ken Burns quality so far.
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Post by pcns on Sept 21, 2017 13:25:01 GMT -7
I was flipping through the channel guide last night and a saw a listing for the show. Looked interesting
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Post by j4gitr (John) on Sept 21, 2017 16:45:35 GMT -7
We just ordered the set for our History Department. Can't wait until they arrive.
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Post by BritInvasion on Sept 21, 2017 19:22:03 GMT -7
I watched it , very well done and to be honest I learned some things I never knew about the early history and French colonization. Very enlightening. Still , brings back disturbing memories and feelings of that time.
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Post by Maddog on Sept 22, 2017 4:29:12 GMT -7
Watching it....great series...A painful reminder of brutal mistakes that weren't recalled....
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Post by kc on Sept 22, 2017 6:02:30 GMT -7
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2017 7:14:26 GMT -7
Staggering. So much information was withheld from us back then. I remember those flags in windows on my street. There was one flag for "son in the service" and another for "lost our son in the service".
Can't urge my fellow Z friends to tune in to this enough.
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Post by cap10toons on Sept 27, 2017 16:31:39 GMT -7
This is one of the few things that I will watch more than once. KC, riveting is the right word.
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Post by John on Sept 28, 2017 3:22:31 GMT -7
I'm a little surprised at the state side political & protest content in the film. I learned new things.
When I say 'surprised'...I don't mean glad or angry...I mean surprised that no other documentary has ever gone into such detail about Nixon, the administration, Westmorland and the different protest groups and what they did.
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Post by ianrossiter on Sept 28, 2017 8:17:32 GMT -7
It started off a bit slow,but the last few episodes have been really really good.
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Post by Ridgeback on Sept 28, 2017 12:20:10 GMT -7
As a Vietnam vet, I'm finding it (maybe) too unsettling to watch and I'm only 3\4 through the first episode. Almost too well done for me. I'll watch a bit more of it but I suspect I won't be comfortable watching the whole thing. No fault of the series itself.
Edited to add that we finished watching episode one and told my wife she was on her own for the rest.
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Post by Buzz Fretwear (Ignatius) on Sept 29, 2017 8:31:45 GMT -7
One featured family is from the small city I live in (well, near technically - I live a few miles outside the city limits).
Ken Burns is so good at what he does. This has been difficult to watch, and unfortunately I've been unable to see each episode in succession and in their entirety. I'll be revisiting these episodes for sure.
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Sept 29, 2017 8:51:14 GMT -7
I just finished it off last night. Even though you could glean a lot from watching individual episodes, you really have to watch all 10 episodes in order to see Ken Burn's brilliance as he peels back the onion, layer by layer, for each of his interviewees, right up to the closing credits.
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Post by 2Cents on Oct 1, 2017 7:00:11 GMT -7
Kudos to Ken Burns for yet another outstanding and long hoped for poignant TV dissertation. For me, Vietnam was both profoundly sublime and traumatizing, simultaneously, to the Nth degree—“You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!”
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