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Ken Burns was in Dallas some years ago visiting a good friend, philanthropist Cappy McGarr. The filmmaker was working on his 2012 Depression-era miniseries, The Dust Bowl, and as usual for a workaholic who often has six or seven films brewing, Burns was turning over ideas for his next project. …

There’s a moment in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new PBS miniseries, The Vietnam War, in which a Vietnamese woman – what they call a “hero mother” – talks about losing eight brothers and two sons to ground combat and bombings. It’s the sort of devastating testimonial about the personal …