Latino activists and politicians are demanding major alterations to U.S. filmmaker Ken Burns’s WWII series on PBS, The War, to include Hispanic vets.

The 14-hour series is slated to air in September and PBS has already been promoting it, with Burns showing snatches of his film in museums and to military cadets. A book based on the series will also be launched simultaneously.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, shown here in 2004, spent six years producing his WWII series, The War, for PBS.

(Louis Lanzano/Associated Press) “It has to be something substantive,” says Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, who leads a history project at the University of Texas detailing the contributions of Latino veterans. “It can’t be simply inserting someone with a [Latin] last name and saying, ‘Oh, yeah, he was there, too.’” [cbc.ca]