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Film: "The Vietnam War" - SOLD OUT

Directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick present an exclusive evening of highlights from their new series The Vietnam War.

Thursday, July 13, 2017
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

Ken Burns and co-director Lynn Novick will present an evening of highlights from their now-finished series The Vietnam War, giving Hop audiences a first look before its fall 2017 PBS premiere. Structured chronologically, this groundbreaking 360-degree narrative is built around interviews and personal stories of nearly 100 American and Vietnamese witnesses—veterans as well as civilians—who lived through the war.

Six years in the making, the series brings the conflict and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally to life with 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, revelatory audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and more than 100 iconic musical recordings by many of the greatest artists of the era.

History Prof. Edward Miller, who served as a consultant on the Vietnam project for the last few years, joins Ken and Lynn for a post-screening discussion with local veterans. 2h

Co-sponsored by New Hampshire Public Television. Series premieres there September 17.

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