

Vietnam: The War That Changed America
2025-01-31 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 8.4
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.
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