Last days in Vietnam
(DVD) 

One disc contains the "theatrical version" (approximately 100 min.), the other contains the "extended broadcast version" (approximately 120 min.).

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Edited by Don Kleszy ; music by Gary Lionelli ; cinematography by Joan Churchill.

Originally produced as a documentary released in 2014; broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American Experience on April 28, 2014.

In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, American servicemen and others begin the difficult mission of evacuating as many friends, family members and South Vietnamese collaborators as possible before Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.

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.

DVD format; NTSC, region 1, widescreen; 5.1 surround.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature (2015).