“Last Days in Vietnam” in Theaters

A CIA employee helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half-mile from the U.S. Embassy. April 29, 1975.
Watch "Last Days in Vietnam" at the Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco on September 26th. A special Q&A wit the director Rory Kennedy will follow the screening.

Rory Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam tells the stories of the final hours in Saigon in April 1975. Don’t miss its theatrical release, now happening in select cities across the country including New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael, San Jose, San Diego, Irvine, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Atlanta and Houston.

Thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Last Days in Vietnam is one of nine projects that was awarded funding through CAAM’s 2014 Documentary Fund.

Main image: A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half mile from the U.S. Embassy. Image courtesy of Last Days in Vietnam. Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images.