Virginia Film Festival: The Vietnam War

Filmmaker Lynn Novick has been making documentaries about American history for nearly twenty-five years. A director and producer, she has been a principal collaborator of Ken Burns since the early 1990s and together they have been responsible for more than 60 hours of programming, some of the most critically acclaimed and top-rated documentary films and series that have aired on PBS, including The Vietnam War.

Stephen Cushman is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His recent books include Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (UNC, 2014); The Red List: A Poem (LSU, 2014); and Riffraff (LSU, 2011).

Marc Selverstone is an associate professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center and chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. A historian of the Cold War, he is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (Harvard), which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has written for journals and edited volumes on the Kennedy presidency, the Cold War, and the American war in Vietnam.