Should you watch Last Days in Vietnam?
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Last Days in Vietnam
Documentary · 2014
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.
The sides of Last Days in Vietnam
- The fall of Saigon in April 1975
- Americans smuggling South Vietnamese allies out
- Helicopters on the embassy roof
Last Days in Vietnam is good for you if…
- you like witnesses telling what they did in the last hours.
- you like a countdown you know ends badly.
- you want to understand how the Vietnam War ended.
Last Days in Vietnam is bad for you if…
- you can't watch people left behind on a rooftop.
- you want combat, and this is interviews and archive footage.
About: duty · conscience · escape
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