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Title:
Last days in Vietnam [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2015]
[Brighton, MA] : PBS Distribution
©2015
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN:
9781627892759
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
Title from container.
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.
Disc 1. Theatrical version (100 min.) -- Disc 2. Extended broadcast version (120 min.)
Technical Details:
DVD format; NTSC, region 1, widescreen; 5.1 surround.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Added Uniform Title:
American experience (Television program)