Retrograde: UK trailer

Retrograde captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last US special operations forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, the civilians desperately attempting to flee as the country collapses, and the Taliban take over. From rarely seen operational control rooms to the frontlines of battle and the chaotic Kabul airport during the final US withdrawal, Heineman’s latest film offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war and the costs endured for those most intimately involved. Retrograde is streaming on Disney+ from 13 January.

Video transcript

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- It's a strange and confusing time right now.

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The Americans trained me, and after being committed for so many years, I just don't believe that the Americans are going to retrograde--

[EXPLOSION]

--and leave the country.

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Our country is everything we have.

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Since the US left, I can see the sense of abandonment within the Afghan forces.

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I want to live long enough to see peace in our country--

[ARTILLERY FIRE]

--spend time with my family--

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--grow old in Afghanistan--

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[GUNSHOTS]

--and ultimately, die in Afghanistan.

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