In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam. These days, Broyles is best known for creating “China Beach,” co-writing “Apollo 13” and ...

Opening Shot: An archival shot of helicopters flying over a rural area in Vietnam. “It’s fifty years since America’s war in Vietnam,” says narrator Ethan Hawke, “A war that changed the world forever.” ...

In the early days of the US military involvement in Vietnam, the most powerful military in the world was confident it would ...

Racing through Vietcong-held territories toward the untamed Plain of Reeds, Mike Vincent’s squad emerged as an unstoppable ...

Prologue (November 1968) -- Vietnam : military advisor Mike Horan (May 1962-June 1963) -- America : president and commander in Chief John F. Kennedy (November 1963) -- America : president and ...

Narrated by Ethan Hawke, Vietnam: The War That Changed America commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. It weaves together first-person testimony, ...