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Movie poster: Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
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Last Days in Vietnam

2014 · 98 min War Documentary
7.3 / 10 · TMDB

April 1975. The North Vietnamese Army tightens its noose around Saigon, plunging the city into chaos. Panicked South Vietnamese citizens storm embassy gates, desperate to escape the inevitable. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats face an unbearable moral choice: obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens, or defy directives to save as many local allies and their families as possible. Archival footage and firsthand accounts lay bare the hellish final hours before the capital's fall, a frantic scramble marked by courage, desperation, and bureaucratic paralysis.

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Year 2014
Country United States of America
Genre War, Documentary
Director Rory Kennedy
Runtime 98 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.3/10 (93 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

This is more than a retreat chronicle; it's a piercing examination of the moment abstract policy collides with living human conscience. Director Rory Kennedy expertly weaves archival footage and interviews, placing the viewer at the heart of a historical nightmare.

What lingers after viewing is the visceral tension of a moral thriller, where every frame pulses with authentic panic and despair. The film forces a reckoning with the price of allegiance and the limits of personal duty in the face of collapse. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Rory Kennedy

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The suffocating heat of panic, the metallic taste of fear, the relentless rotor-wash over a doomed city.

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