Pat Tillman was a defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals in 2002, but he decided to walk away from his multimillion-dollar contract to join the Army and fight in Afghanistan.

After this, they pushed various entities of the government to investigate and admit that the initial descriptions of Pat's death were intentionally manufactured as propaganda.

A paper trail, which includes a leaked top-secret document known as a P4 Memo that was sent by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, indicates that blame for the deception extends all the way to the Bush White House.

[7] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating based on 89 reviews, with an average score of 8.2/10; the site's "critics consensus" states: "Passionate, angry, and insightful, The Tillman Story offers a revealing portrait of its subject's inspiring life and untimely death.

[9] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote: "This documentary succeeds triumphantly on so many levels that its full impact doesn't hit you until you have time to register its aftershocks [...] it will get under your skin.