Last Days In Vietnam Documentary Analysis
Rory Kennedy’s documentary Last Days in Vietnam examines the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War in April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces advanced rapidly toward Saigon and the South Vietnamese government collapsed. The film focuses on the evacuation crisis faced by American diplomats, military personnel, intelligence officers, sailors, Marines, and their South Vietnamese colleagues and families. Its central question is captured by the PBS description: who would be evacuated,

