'The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick' Episode Review: 'Resolve (January 1966-June 1967)'
Episode Four: Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward Directed by: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the South while Saigon struggles to "pacify" the countryside. As an antiwar movement builds back home, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers' war. - from The Vietnam War's Episode List On September 20, 2017, viewers who tuned in to their local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations watched "Resolve (January 1966-June 1967)," Episode Four of The Vietnam War, a 10-part documentary series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ( Prohibition, The War ). A decade in the making, this 18-hour look at one of the darkest chapters of American and Vietnamese history was produced by Burns ( The Civil War ), Novick, and Sarah Botstein. Its tag...