Novick — who during the production process made three trips to Vietnam, each about three weeks long, and who was headed back there when we spoke last month — said, "One of the many mistakes that Americans made, and still make in a way, in thinking about the Vietnam War is that we think it's just about us. And if you just think about what happened to Americans, and what Americans did or didn't do, you're missing pretty important parts of this very complicated story.