Name: Evacuation
Released: 2023-07-02T00:00:00.000Z

Evacuation

TV Show · Documentary

The inside story of the perilous British campaign to evacuate Kabul, revealing for the first time the truth about the minute-by-minute drama of Britain's biggest airlift since World War II.

2023 · 47m

Director James W Newton

EPISODE 1

We Should Have Gone Earlier

As British troops prepare to evacuate Kabul, the Taliban take the city, unleashing chaos on the airport runway. The evacuation can't begin until the military clears the airfield of the thousands of panicked civilians who've broken through.

47m
EPISODE 2

These Numbers Mean We Will Fail

Troops at Kabul airport must make life-and-death decisions as they struggle to control crowds of terrified civilians; in the air, pilots navigate treacherous Afghan skies; the RAF must decide whether to overload aircraft to take more evacuees.

47m
EPISODE 3

We Just Left Them

British troops rush to deal with the aftermath of a deadly explosion at Kabul airport. They must stop processing civilians as they have to start extracting their own forces out of the country.

47m