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Is there an Israel/Palestine version of this series? I’ve not got enough knowledge on the situation and would like to know more.
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From Ken Burns, no. Nor really anything like that on PBS; they have a two-part documentary that is much less ambitious, races through the period from the League of Nations mandate through to the Arab-Israeli wars. It isn't something that's going to generate letters of complaint from Evangelist Christian congressmen.
It's a lot easier to make a documentary about Vietnam because it ended 50 years ago. Israel/Palestine continues to be a burning issue. I don't know of anything made in any country on this subject on the same scale as the Vietnam series. I don't know when if ever it would be possible to make such a series in the U.S.
itsbruce
Watched that a while back and it seemed well done, but I'm generally suspicious of how Ken Burns covers a subject. His Civil War documentary series was full of Lost Cause bullshit.
That said, most of the criticism for the Vietnam series seems to have come from veterans who supported the war and thought there were too many voices from Americans opposing the war and in particular veterans who became protestors. Bao Ninh, one of the North Vietnamese Army veterans who pops up quite often over the series, said he was happy with the result. He was quite salty about various things during the documentary (including Tim O'Brien, also interviewed for the series), so he would probably have been quite blunt if he'd found fault.
I bought his novel on the war, The Sorrow of War, years ago and reread it after watching the series. Can recommend it if you want to read an account of the whole mess from a perspective we don't usually get over here.