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🎬 Vietnam: The War That Changed America - Inside Story (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE: The Inside Story of 'Vietnam: The War That Changed America'.

Vietvet and 'Apollo 13' Oscar nominee William Broyles, Jr. opens up about the war's impact in an important new documentary.

By Tim Appelo, AARP.

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Published February 03, 2025.

Apollo 13 screenwriter William Broyles, Jr., 80, is the only Oscar nominee who went from Oxford University to Vietnam to Hollywood, where he created the Vietnam-set series China Beach and wrote Cast Away, Planet of the Apes, The Polar Express, Jarhead and the AARP Movies for Grownups Award-winning World War II movie Flags of Our Fathers.

He worked at Newsweek, founded Texas Monthly, wrote the classic memoir Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace about his return to Vietnam 15 years after the war, and appears in the riveting new documentary Vietnam: The War That Changed America (Jan. 31, Apple TV+), narrated by Ethan Hawke, 54. Broyles tells AARP about the war and the new documentary.

USE THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/info-2025/william-broyles-vietnam-documentary...