Year			2004
Genre			Documentary
Parents			Violence, sexual content
Length			1:24
Director			George Butler
Writer			Joseph Dorman
Company			TH!NKFilm
Starring			Douglas Brinkley Max Cleland Bestor Cram Vietnam Veteran Richard Holbrooke John Kerry Show more... Douglas Brinkley Max Cleland Bestor Cram Vietnam Veteran Richard Holbrooke John Kerry Joe Klein Lenny Rotman Vietnam Veteran Wade Sanders Vietnam Veteran Neil Sheehan Historian David Thorne Yale Classmate Vietnam Veteran

The film traces Kerry's early life as a young man who chooses to enlist in the Navy and to go to Vietnam. The film reveals intimate, first person accounts of Kerry's war service through his own private letters, his eloquent journal, and the vivid memories of the men who served at his side. When Kerry came home disillusioned by the war, he and his fellow Vietnam Veterans challenged Congress and the Nixon administration. As Kerry became a nationally known anti-war activist, the Nixon White House plotted to discredit his leadership, but significantly could find "nothing on him," as Colson reveals via Watergate tapes. Despite Nixon's attempt to undermine John Kerry's political career during his 1972 unsuccessful run for US Congress, Kerry persevered, eventually winning election to the Senate and receiving the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.