Regret to Inform

Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,.^[1] After airing on PBS' POV, Regret to Inform won a Peabody Award in 2000.^[2]

Regret to Inform
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Directed by	Barbara Sonneborn
Written by	Barbara Sonneborn
Cinematography	Emiko Omori Daniel Reeves Nancy Schiesari
Edited by	Lucy Massie Phenix Ken Schneider
Production company	Sun Fountain Productions
Distributed by	Artistic License Films
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together, the two women try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.