Evacuation (2023– ) User Reviews

Excellent & Moving

[gerardmartin77 · 8/10 · 8 July 2023]

This brilliant documentary must be up for winning some awards.

The story of the British army and air force evacuating thousands of British passport holders as Kabul falls to the Taliban forces is told through the eyes and stories of the military personnel who took part.

Its incredibly moving and shocking at the same time and uses a lot of previously unseen video footage of the immense logistical operation. These soldiers , medics and airforce men and women will never forget what they saw and took part in.

The director has done a great job of letting the troops speak directly to the camera and has ended up making a superb documentary.

Extremely powerful documentary that needs to be seen.... In fact it should be compulsory viewing, especially by our politicians and everyone wanting to become one!!

[prestonmick-975-597748 · 9/10 · 21 May 2024]

This is an incredible piece of filmmaking. I'd say this is an absolute must see and I was in tears by the end.

My emotions switched between sorrow, heartbreak, shock and rage. And I don't mean rage at the Taliban, at a Parliament that sends our soldiers to a futile war and then once it knows it's a war it can't win, then we leave. But when we leave, there are traumatised soldiers coming home after losing friends and knowing it was a waste of time. And hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan nationals that we promised safe harbour, but instead we left them there and god knows what's happened to them. It's tragic beyond words.

Everyone involved in this documentary deserves so much credit for telling their story and being allowed to express themselves. I hope that being involved in this project helps them deal with their PTSD and guilt some of them feel.

The way it allows the servicemen, ex servicemen, interpreters, families to speak candidly and openly about their experience of those last 18 days leading up to the evacuation of Kabul is something that will touch your very soul.

Congratulations to the filmmakers for being sensitive and yet brutally honest about the whole evacuation.

I sincerely hope that if we ever go through this again, we send all the sitting MPs that voted for whatever war we're fighting to be the last ones out and let them check in the nationals desperate to leave and see the civilians begging for help. And make sure those 'politicians' also are the ones on the very last flight out, if they make it.