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And he finally looked over like this
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Escape from Kabul

And he finally looked overlike this, and he makes eye contactwith me, and I just-- I...

And he finally looked over
like this, and he makes eye contact
with me, and I just-- I pointed at him, and I said,
"You need to go now," and he very slowly
started moving that C-17

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And he finally looked over like this,
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and he makes eye contact with me, and I just--
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I pointed at him, and I said, "You need to go now,"
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and he very slowly started moving that C-17.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
51
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:40
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
Amos Pictures,ARTE,HBO Documentary Films

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Movie Summary

Features never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of Afghan citizens after the Taliban seized the ...
- The people kind of climbed on the airplane. - Escape from Kabul 00:11
- The people kind of climbed on the airplane.
And as, you know, we're kind of at each other's throats-- - Escape from Kabul 00:12
And as, you know, we're kind of at each other's th...
[plane engine roaring] - Escape from Kabul 00:08
[plane engine roaring]
- That kind of deflated the entire situation. - Escape from Kabul 00:04
- That kind of deflated the entire situation.
Maybe some of the people on the ground there realized, - Escape from Kabul 00:33
Maybe some of the people on the ground there realized,
[people clamoring] - Escape from Kabul 00:13
[people clamoring]
"Okay, this is a host nation force - Escape from Kabul 00:09
"Okay, this is a host nation force
It was dark at this point, - Escape from Kabul 00:08
It was dark at this point,
[indistinct chatter] - Escape from Kabul 00:17
[indistinct chatter]
- And that Afghan unit, - Escape from Kabul 00:07
- And that Afghan unit,
I don't know what would have happened on the airfield - Escape from Kabul 00:04
I don't know what would have happened on the airfield
- That night and that next morning, - Escape from Kabul 00:08
- That night and that next morning,
- [speaking an Afghan language] - Escape from Kabul 00:04
- [speaking an Afghan language]
- We're getting into the 17th. - Escape from Kabul 00:25
- We're getting into the 17th.
[people shouting] - Escape from Kabul 00:12
[people shouting]
Push back! You need to back up! - Escape from Kabul 00:04
Push back! You need to back up!
You need to stop asking the marines, - Escape from Kabul 00:07
You need to stop asking the marines,
- Once we got to those gates, - Escape from Kabul 00:08
- Once we got to those gates,
- Our higher echelons of command, - Escape from Kabul 00:08
- Our higher echelons of command,
"31st, you're out of here." - Escape from Kabul 00:16
"31st, you're out of here."