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Escape from Kabul

Then a C-17 comes in, 'cause the airfield's open. ♪ ♪

Then a C-17 comes in, 'cause the airfield's open. ♪ ♪

Full Transcript

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- Then a C-17 comes in,
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'cause the airfield's open.
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♪ ♪
Duration
13 seconds
Views
146
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:24
Uploaded
May 28, 2023
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 ...
There's just mass hysteria. - Escape from Kabul 00:24
There's just mass hysteria.
[people yelling] - Escape from Kabul 00:10
[people yelling]
- That's the beacon of hope and freedom to them. - Escape from Kabul 00:05
- That's the beacon of hope and freedom to them.
And so now it's the long kilometer-and-a-half run back, - Escape from Kabul 00:06
And so now it's the long kilometer-and-a-half run back,
You need to get these people off." - Escape from Kabul 00:12
You need to get these people off."
The people are just all around it, - Escape from Kabul 00:09
The people are just all around it,
And he finally looked over like this, - Escape from Kabul 00:14
And he finally looked over like this,
- 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]