--- title: Film: Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie description: The film depicts the U.S. diplomatic compound attack in Libya that killed a U.S. Ambassador and additional American personnel canonical: https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-29T14:02:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:41:42.814Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie og:description: The film depicts the U.S. diplomatic compound attack in Libya that killed a U.S. Ambassador and additional American personnel og:url: https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ac7c8d3af2b7bb/69885cf50b72e34cd56e5242/michael-bay.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Michael Bay at the premiere of "Project Almanac" in Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie twitter:description: The film depicts the U.S. diplomatic compound attack in Libya that killed a U.S. Ambassador and additional American personnel twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ac7c8d3af2b7bb/69885cf50b72e34cd56e5242/michael-bay.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Jul 29, 2015 2:02 PM UTC  Michael Bay at the premiere of "Project Almanac" in Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2015. Michael Bay at the premiere of "Project Almanac" in Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2015.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Jul 29, 2015 2:02 PM UTC The first trailer for _13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi_ is out, offering a glimpse of Michael Bay’s latest directorial undertaking. The red band trailer features plenty of Bay’s hallmark explosions and actions scenes, though with a decidedly more serious tone in its depiction of the 2012 attacks in Libya. The movie is adapted from the book _13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi_, by Mitchell Zukoff. The acclaimed nonfiction book, released last fall, details the assault on a U.S. diplomatic compound. The attacks killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, two CIA contractors, and and approximately 100 attackers. _13 Hours_ — which stars John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, and Pablo Schreiber — is due in theaters Jan. 15, 2016. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/28/michael-bay-13-hours-secret-soldiers-benghazi-trailer) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie","datePublished":"2015-07-29T14:02:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:41:42.814Z","description":"The film depicts the U.S. diplomatic compound attack in Libya that killed a U.S. Ambassador and additional American personnel","url":"https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Benghazi","film"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ac7c8d3af2b7bb/69885cf50b72e34cd56e5242/michael-bay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96ac7c8d3af2b7bb/69885cf50b72e34cd56e5242/michael-bay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Michael Bay at the premiere of \"Project Almanac\" in Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2015.","caption":"Michael Bay at the premiere of \"Project Almanac\" in Hollywood on Jan. 27, 2015.","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3976605/michael-bay-benghazi-movie-trailer/","name":"Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie"}}]}] ```