The American War 

A podcast guide to "The Vietnam War," the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Washington Post Opinion columnist Alyssa Rosenberg breaks down each episode of the film with Burns and Novick themselves, getting the story behind the stories, and grappling with the lessons the United States learned -- and failed to learn -- in Vietnam and at home. Listen after you watch each episode of "The Vietnam War" for a new perspective on how the film was made and what it all means.

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Title	Date published
Episode 10: “Let it be.”	2017-09-29
Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”	2017-09-28
Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”	2017-09-27
Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”	2017-09-26
Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”	2017-09-25
Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”	2017-09-22
Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”	2017-09-21
Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”	2017-09-20
Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”	2017-09-19
Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”	2017-09-18
Preview: 'The American War,' a podcast guide to the new PBS documentary 'The Vietnam War'	2017-09-11

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