Just occasionally a documentary series makes you stop and rethink what you know of the world. Evacuation, three unforgettable films about the chaotic airlift of British citizens and troops from Afghanistan as the Taliban re-entered Kabul in August 2021, is one such series.
The films, which will be shown on consecutive nights on Channel 4 starting on Sunday evening, do not tell the story we think we know – the fatal strategic miscalculations of government ministers asleep at the wheel. They instead present an eyewitness account of that horrific fortnight at Kabul airport.
