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[Spike Spiegel]

Watch "Last Days in Vietnam" @ PBS Online

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'American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam' Site

American Experience is airing the Academy Award -nominated documentary starting tonight at 9e/8c on most PBS stations.

Last Days in Vietnam

Academy Award® Nominee for Documentary Feature. In April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. Approximately 5,000 Americans remained with roughly 24 hours to get out. Their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers, and friends faced certain imprisonment and possible death if they remained behind, yet there was no official evacuation plan in place. Still, over the last days in Vietnam, with the clock ticking and the city under fire, 135,000 South Vietnamese managed to escape with help from a number of heroic Americans who took matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many people as possible.

 

[The Last Wizard]

It's actually 9 et

 

[shadyspace]

I will be now that you've reminded me that it's airing in 20 minutes. Thanks OP.

 

[MrPink93485]

I saw this a couple months ago. Really well made documentary, kind of maddening how the evacuation went despite the hard work that did go into executing the final plan.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

It's actually 9 et

Yep, my bad. They're airing "The Day the 60s Died" as a primer right now; I just got home and thought it had already started.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Whatever is on now is pretty good.

 

[RustyNails]

Whatever is on now is pretty good.

What's the doc about?

 

[a Master Ninja]

What's the doc about?

Nixon era stuff. Pat Buchanan is being a revisionist but thankfully the other people are directly contradicting him.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

What's the doc about?

http://www.pbs.org/program/day-60s-died/

Spring of 1970, Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia, the heightened anti-war demonstrations at home and the reactions to it mainly through the lens of the Kent State shootings.

 

[shadyspace]

Huh I thought we had agreed that Altamont was the day the 60s died

 

[RustyNails]

Nixon era stuff. Pat Buchanan is being a revisionist but thankfully the other people are directly contradicting him.

http://www.pbs.org/program/day-60s-died/

Spring of 1970, Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia, the heightened anti-war demonstrations at home and the reactions to it mainly through the lens of the Kent State shootings.

Thanks. I'm in.

 

[Fëanorian]

Saw it last year, it was good stuff! You guys should watch it.

 

[Poindexter]

Watching now. Thanks.

 

[dekline]

I'll watch

 

[RustyNails]

15 minutes in, THIS SHIT IS CRAZY.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

15 minutes in, THIS SHIT IS CRAZY.

The denial of the US ambassador was just staggering.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Ugh, this ambassador.

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

Any way to watch it online later or something?

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Any way to watch it online later or something?

PBS has it listed on their site, but it's not available to watch yet.

http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/episodes/

You could also download it from Google/ITunes/Amazon for $3.99.

EDIT: It's disappeared from that page, odd.

EDIT #2: It's back on the page now.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Pushing those helicopters off the flight decks...this is getting so crazy.

 

[FuriousOne]

Thanks for the heads up, have it set to record later.

 

[hugocésar]

Hopefully it'll be up on the PBS app (I think they put all their stuff there). Definitely going to try and watch it this week as I'm taking a class on the 1960s right now.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

LIKE. A. BOSS.

Holy crap that pilot.

 

[a Master Ninja]

THAT CHINOOK STORY

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

PBS has it listed on their site, but it's not available to watch yet.

http://video.pbs.org/program/american-experience/episodes/

You could also download it from Google/ITunes/Amazon for $3.99.

EDIT: It's disappeared from that page, odd.

Awesome thank you!

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Can scarcely imagine what that must have felt like... to tell these people "choppers are coming you'll see," then to have to slink away and bar the doors behind you as you make your own escape.

 

[RustyNails]

Damn that was...an experience. Although the Ambassador was stubborn, he was personally vested in the conflict. But good on the GIs and other people that created adhoc planning.

And in the end, the ambassador did do the right thing and tried to get as many vietnamese on the choppers as possible.

 

[rokkerkory]

These events were very real and authentic. Props to PBS.

 

[shadyspace]

The lengths these men went to to evacuate South Vietnamese from the encroaching NVA was admirable beyond words.

 

[FairyD]

Anyone see the program that was in before this? 'the day the 60s died' I think it was called that and was a great prelude to this.

 

[RustyNails]

Is there an estimate on how many people were killed in re-education camps? PBS was vague on that regard.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Is there an estimate on how many people were killed in re-education camps? PBS was vague on that regard.

Figure that comes up most seems to be 165,000 out of 1 million to be incarcerated following the fall of Saigon.