Directed by Doan Hoang • 2007 • United States
Starring Nam Hoang, Van Tran, Anne Hoang
Doan Hoang’s family was airlifted out of Vietnam on April 30, 1975, on the last civilian helicopter to leave the country at the end of the Vietnam War. Years later, she sets out to uncover their story. Her father, a former South Vietnamese major, confronts his political differences with his brothers, whom he never mentioned to his children. Meanwhile, Hoang tries to reconcile her own survivor’s guilt with the experience of her half-sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape. One of the rare Vietnam War documentary films made by a Vietnamese-born director, OH, SAIGON gives a Vietnamese perspective of the war and its end.
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