Vietnam: The War That Changed America

Matt Roush says...

Nearly 50 years have passed since the fall of Saigon marked the end of a war that divided the nation as unprecedented TV coverage brought combat and its terrible cost into our living rooms like never before. With you-are-there immediacy and first-person emotional intimacy, a stirring six-part Apple TV+ docuseries relives the turbulent era by blending raw archival footage with dramatic testimony from those whose lives were never the same (sometimes watching coverage of themselves in action). “Believe it or not, it’s me!” declares a former Marine watching footage of him guarding the American Embassy in Saigon during the shattering final days of desperate evacuation. We believe him, and we feel it anew. (See the full review.)

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