Last days in Vietnam
2017
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April 1975. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, the South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. The United States had only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. With the lives of thousands of South Vietnamese hanging in the balance, those in control faced an impossible choice -- who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment or even death. At the risk of their careers and possible courts-martial, a handful of individuals took matters into their own hands. Engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations, they waged a desperate effort to evacuate as many South Vietnamese as possible. - Container.
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Author:
Kennedy, Rory, director, producerBailey, Mark, 1968-, ScreenwriterMcAlester, Keven, screenwriterAmerican Experience Films, presenterMoxie Firecracker Films, Inc, production companyPublic Broadcasting Service (U.S.), film distributor
Edition:
Widescreen version.
Imprint:
United States : WGBH Boston, ©2015.Australia : Distributed by ViaVision Entertainment, ©2017.©2015
Collation:
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 215 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes:
"Digitally remastered" --Container.One disc contains the "theatrical version" (approximately 100 min.), the other contains the "extended broadcast version" (approximately 120 min.).Originally produced as a documentary released in 2014; broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American Experience on April 28, 2014.In English.
Credits:
Directed and produced by Rory Kennedy ; Written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester.
Audience:
Censorship classification : M ; for war themes.
System details:
DVD; NTSC, Region 4, widescreen; 5.1 surround.
Contents:
Disc 1 : Theatrical version (approximately 100 min.). From peace to panic -- An urgent situation -- Planning for evacuation -- Saigon under attack -- The airlift begins -- Miki's story -- Evacuating the embassy -- The last helicopter -- Surrender of Saigon -- Disc 2 : Extended broadcast version (approximately 120 min.). From peace to panic -- An urgent situation -- Planning for evacuation -- Saigon under attack -- Rush to the embassy -- The airlift begins -- Miki's story -- Evacuating the embassy -- The last helicopter -- Surrender of Saigon.
Awards:
Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature (2015)
Dewey class:
959.704
Language:
English
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Subject:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Evacuation of civiliansVietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) -- Evacuation of civiliansAirlift, Military -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th centuryVietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United StatesRefugees -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States -- History -- 1969-Vietnam -- History -- 20th centuryHistorical television programsDocumentary television programsWar television programsVideo recordings for the hearing impaired
BRN:
372839
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