<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> External links </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/home </Td> </Tr> <P> The Vietnam War is a 10 - part, 17 - and - a-quarter - hour American television documentary series about the Vietnam War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick . The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017 . The script is by Geoffrey Ward, and the series is narrated by Peter Coyote . </P> <P> The series cost around $30 million and took more than 10 years to make . 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 production companies were WETA - TV in Washington, D.C., and Burns' Florentine Films . </P>

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