Vermont PBS presents an exclusive preview screening of “The Vietnam War,” a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, on Thursday, August 24, at 7:30 p.m. , at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St., Brattleboro. This free screening event will include a 1-hour preview of all 10 episodes of the documentary followed by a panel discussion.
Vermont PBS will air the new landmark documentary event starting September 17. Registration for Aug. 24 is free. RSVP today to reserve a seat at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/special-preview-event-the-vietnam-war-a-film-by-ken-burns-lynn-novick-registration-36523366372?aff=Facebook.

THE VIETNAM WAR is a 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will air on PBS in September 2017.

In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

Six years in the making, the series brings the war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally to life. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, produced by Sarah Botstein, Novick and Burns, it includes rarely seen, digitally remastered 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.