As storytelling, its depiction of the airlift, relying heavily on 16mm footage shot in 1975 and structured hour-by-hour, is quite gripping. Kennedy's montage of archival footage and present-day interviews... is judicious. However, the film, produced by PBS's American Experience series, does feel like a TV program, never venturing beyond documentary conventions—its most outré touches are computer-animated maps of Saigon.
Steve Erickson
August 27, 2014