Series: International Art House Series, Running the Screen: Directed by Women, 40 Years On: Screening the Vietnam War
Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the 2015 Oscars®, Rory Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam chronicles the remarkable final days of the Vietnam War during the fall of Saigon in April of 1975. Faced with advancing forces, the remnants of U.S. and South Vietnamese forces had to work hastily to help their sympathizers escape Saigon. Mixing historical footage with contemporary interviews featuring the people who were there, Last Days in Vietnam documents an important symbolic moment in American history. In English with Vietnamese subtitles. (2K DCP Presentation)
