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Last days in Vietnam / American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; Moxie Firecracker Films ; directed and produced by Rory Kennedy ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester.

Contributor(s): Kennedy, Rory [film director,, film producer.] | Bailey, Mark, 1968- [screenwriter.] | McAlester, Keven [screenwriter.] | American Experience Films [presenter.] | Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc [production company.] | Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) [film distributor.]Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: VVE1230 | ViaVision EntertainmentPublisher: [Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2015]Distributor: [Australia] : ViaVision Entertainment. Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 2 DVD-videos (215 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscUniform titles: American experience (Television program) Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Evacuation of civilians | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Evacuation of civilians | Airlift, Military -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States | Refugees -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century | United States -- History -- 1969- | Vietnam -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Historical television programs. | Documentary television programs. | War television programs. | Nonfiction television programs. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | War television programs. DDC classification: 959.704/3373

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.

Production credits: Edited by Don Kleszy ; music by Gary Lionelli ; cinematography by Joan Churchill.Awards: Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature (2015)Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
wnor - DVD	Wundowie Wundowie General Stacks	959 .7043 LAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		AL42100064343B

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.

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.