Secret History: Ophans Of The Airlift

Record ID: 108658
  • Title: Secret History: Ophans Of The Airlift
  • Date: 9th August 2001
  • Summary: Documentary looking at the airlift of over one hundred orphans from Saigon in 1975,orchestrated by the editor of the Daily Mail,David English,and the consequences for the children involved. Looks at the events leading up to the airlift and the motivations,pros and cons of such an action. Also talks with some of those who were children at the time - it saved the lives of some and offered them new opportunities,but others,who still had family in Vietnam,suddenly found themselves cut off from relatives.
  • Description:The story of 'Operation Baby-Lift',investigating the controversial "rescue" of Vietnamese orphans organised by the Daily Mail,as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in 1974. What happened to the orphans'?
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:09/08/2001
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 2000s
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