Last Days in Vietnam
As a portrait of America in a moment both of idealism and betrayal, the movie is heartbreaking as well as inspiring.
Last Days in Vietnam
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. The United States has only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. As Communist victory becomes inevitable and the U.S. readies to withdraw, some Americans begin to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers, and friends. Meanwhile, the prospect of an official evacuation of South Vietnamese becomes terminally delayed by Congressional gridlock and the inexplicably optimistic U.S. Ambassador. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, a number of heroic Americans take matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible.
Genre
Documentary,
History,
War
Web Site
Runtime
98
Language
English
Director
Rory Kennedy
FEATURED REVIEW
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Sometimes the stories we think we know, the stories where we don't want to hear another word, turn out to be the most involving of all, the ones we in fact know the least about. So it is with "Last Days in Vietnam." Not an examination of why we were in Vietnam or whether we should have been there in ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 9.27.14 - 10.19.14
Claremont 5 9.27.14 - 10.05.14
Royal 1.03.15 - 1.04.15
NoHo 7 1.03.15 - 1.04.15
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