Amir Bar-Lev's emotionally powerful and heartbreaking documentary The Tillman Story comes to theaters on August 20th. The real-life story follows Pat Tillman, who left his multi-million dollar football contract to join the military, only to find his tragic death manipulated and turned into a piece of propaganda. Yahoo! Movies! has released the first trailer from this moving film, which you can check out in the clip below:

Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool is unfathomable and thoroughly explored in Amir Bar-Lev's riveting and enraging documentary.