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The Resource Last days in Vietnam, American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester ; produced and directed by Rory Kennedy ; produced by Keven McAlester ; A Moxie Firecracker production for American Experience ; WGBH, (DVD)

Last days in Vietnam, American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester ; produced and directed by Rory Kennedy ; produced by Keven McAlester ; A Moxie Firecracker production for American Experience ; WGBH, (DVD)

Label
Last days in Vietnam
Title
Last days in Vietnam
Statement of responsibility
American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester ; produced and directed by Rory Kennedy ; produced by Keven McAlester ; A Moxie Firecracker production for American Experience ; WGBH
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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 court-martials, 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
Member of
Awards note
Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature (2015).
Characteristic
videorecording
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
American experience (Television program)
Credits note
Editor, Don Kleszy ; music, Gary Lionelli ; director of photography, Joan Churchill
Date time place
Originally produced as a documentary released in 2014; broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American Experience on April 28, 2014
Dewey number
959.704/3373
Language note
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
LC call number
  • DS559.63
  • DS558
LC item number
  • .L37 2014
  • .L37 2015
Runtime
220
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Vietnam War (1961-1975)
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Airlift, Military
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Refugees
  • Airlift, Military
  • Evacuation of civilians
  • Refugees
  • United States
  • Vietnam
  • United States
  • Vietnam
  • Vietnam
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
Last days in Vietnam, American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester ; produced and directed by Rory Kennedy ; produced by Keven McAlester ; A Moxie Firecracker production for American Experience ; WGBH, (DVD)
Instantiates
Publication
Distribution
Copyright
Note
Includes both theatrical version (approximately 100 minutes) and extended broadcast version (approximately 120 minutes)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1 : Theatrical version (1 hr., 38 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 (1 hr., 54 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
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen version.
Extent
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.)
Isbn
9781627892759
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
841887024044
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • LDVI600
  • LDVI600.1
  • LDVI600.2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocn904967059
  • (OCoLC)904967059
System details
DVD format; NTSC, region 1, widescreen; 5.1 surround
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Last days in Vietnam, American Experience Films PBS presents ; a Moxie Firecracker production ; written by Mark Bailey & Keven McAlester ; produced and directed by Rory Kennedy ; produced by Keven McAlester ; A Moxie Firecracker production for American Experience ; WGBH, (DVD)
Publication
Distribution
Copyright
Note
Includes both theatrical version (approximately 100 minutes) and extended broadcast version (approximately 120 minutes)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1 : Theatrical version (1 hr., 38 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 (1 hr., 54 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
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen version.
Extent
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.)
Isbn
9781627892759
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
841887024044
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • LDVI600
  • LDVI600.1
  • LDVI600.2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocn904967059
  • (OCoLC)904967059
System details
DVD format; NTSC, region 1, widescreen; 5.1 surround
Video recording format
DVD

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