Ken Burns working on Vietnam series for PBS

If the Republicans don't kill PBS by 2016, we'll be able to enjoy a Ken Burns' documentary mini-series that year on the Vietnam War.

From Variety:

"Today, more than four decades after it ended, nearly everyone has an opinion about the Vietnam War, but few Americans truly know its history and there is little consensus about what happened there, or why," Burns said. "Our series will shed light both on the history of the war, and on our inability to find common ground about it."

In the style of previous docs including "The Civil War" and WWII-focused "The War," Burns and Novick will rely not only on archival images but also to a great extent on the firsthand testimonies of everyday citizens, from both sides of the conflict abroad as well as the protests in the U.S.