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Vietnam The War That Changed America Trailer HD - Plot Synopsis: With never-before-seen archival footage, Vietnam: The War that Changed America tells the story of the war through the eyes and memories of the people who lived it — 50 years later.

Narrated by Ethan Hawke, this six-part docuseries premieres January 31 on Apple TV+

The reunion of old friends, first-person accounts, and rarely seen footage paint an extraordinary and deeply profound picture of what it was like to live through one of history’s longest wars. Narrated by Ethan Hawke.

Some of the featured voices include: Bill Broyles, a celebrated Hollywood screenwriter and Lieutenant in the war who reunites with a member of his platoon after 50 years; Hilary Brown, ABC News’ first female foreign correspondent who covered the fall of Saigon firsthand; Melvin Pender, the Olympic gold-medal winning runner who competed in 1968 between tours in Vietnam; soldiers from the Viet Cong who fought in the Tet Offensive, including the first Viet Cong woman in her district to shoot down an enemy aircraft; a veteran who thought his life was over, forced to parachute into the Ho Chi Minh trail, who reunites with the man who rescued him; and Vietnamese civilians who witnessed and fled from the war.

"Vietnam: The War That Changed America” is produced for Apple TV+ by the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning team at 72 Films, directed by Rob Coldstream (“John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial”) and produced by Caroline Marsden (“9/11: One Day in America”), with executive producers David Glover ("9/11: One Day in America”) and Mark Raphael (“Crime and Punishment”). This series marks the second collaboration for Apple TV+ and 72 Films, following the launch of “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial” last year.

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00:00You may have seen movies about Vietnam, but this is the real story, told only by those
00:10who were there.
00:12We were brothers.
00:13The camaraderie is so strong.
00:16You know he's willing to die for you, and he knows I'm willing to die for him.
00:24The situation John was in, he was a dead man.
00:33But you do what you have to do to save somebody.
00:38We'll find the people in the footage.
00:42That's me, right there.
00:43And half a century later, we unite them.
00:50John.
00:51We saw images that are burned into your soul.
00:59You know I still have nightmares.
01:02Even to this day, I'm stuck in that moment.
01:06Decades running war that changed the world forever.
01:12And the people who fought in it.
01:14It's thought that over three million were killed in the conflict.
01:21Without you, I wouldn't be here today.
01:30Thank you for saving my life.
01:42Thank you for saving my life.