Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War begins this week, though the 18-hour series is far from the first about the subject. Unlike Hollywood’s almost 15-year delay, documentary makers started trying to make sense of the war early on. The Vietnam War has been a cultural touchstone for generations, though it resonates most with…
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Lance Loud! Is Larger Than Life in ‘A Death in An American Family’
“I’m still big. It’s documentaries that got small.” — Lance Loud In 1973, PBS aired a ground-breaking series titled An American Family. Though the format sounds familiar today, then it was quite an innovation: A crew of filmmakers recorded events in the daily life of a family, in this case the Louds of Santa Barbara,…