
The series features interviews with 79 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war or opposed it as Anti-war protesters, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the North and the South. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The production companies were WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., and Burns' Florentine Films. It was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who had previously collaborated on The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010), and Prohibition (2011). The series cost around $30 million and took more than 10 years to make. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV-MA rating. The script is by Geoffrey Ward, and the series is narrated by Peter Coyote. The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. Ward and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The Vietnam War is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War written by Geoffrey C. 2017 documentary television series The Vietnam War
