Article snippet: Documentary filmmaker Donald Trump entered national politics. With the film debuting on PBS this week, Burns said in an interview with ABC News in the middle of Washington, D.C. that he sees parallels in the present day that make the past worth revisiting. “Think about the echoes in the present moment,” Burns told ABC’s Rick Klein while in Washington, D.C. “This is about mass demonstrations taking place all across the country against the current administration, a White House in disarray, obsessed with leaks. The president accusing the media of lying about huge document drops of stolen, classified material, about a country polarized and disagreeing with itself, about asymmetrical warfare and accusations that a political campaign reached out to a foreign government.” Burns elaborates that these parallels are more than coincidence. “I think it reminds us that a good deal of divisions we experience today -- the hyper-partisanship that had seeds in Vietnam -- but that history can be just, in general, regardless of the topic, an extraordinarily good help in helping us understand this moment,” he said. Co-Director Lynn Novick sees the opportunity as a chance for reflection. “We have to look at ourselves squarely in the mirror and try to understand why these things happened, and what we can do about it now,” she says of particularly painful portions of American history. Both of the creators of “The Vietnam War” see the rich historical subject matter... Link to the full article to read more