{{short description|1998 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Regret to Inform | image = Poster of the movie Regret to Inform.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Barbara Sonneborn | producer = | writer = Barbara Sonneborn | cinematography = Emiko Omori<br>Daniel Reeves<br>Nancy Schiesari | editing = Lucy Massie Phenix<br>Ken Schneider | studio = Sun Fountain Productions | distributor = Artistic License Films | released = {{film date|1998}} | runtime = 72 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}
'''''Regret to Inform''''' is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/176006/Regret-to-Inform/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521143350/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/176006/Regret-to-Inform/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 21, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2011 |title=NY Times: Regret to Inform |access-date=November 22, 2008}}</ref> After airing on PBS' ''POV'', ''Regret to Inform'' won a Peabody Award in 2000.<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/regret-to-inform 60th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2001.</ref>
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.
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.regrettoinform.org/index.shtml}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20190903063534/http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/regrettoinform/ ''Regret to Inform''] at ''POV'' *{{IMDb title|id=0181786|title=Regret to Inform}}
Category:1998 films Category:1998 black-and-white films Category:American documentary films Category:Black-and-white documentary films Category:Documentary films about the Vietnam War Category:Peabody Award–winning broadcasts Category:1998 documentary films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1998 English-language films Category:1998 American films Category:Sundance Film Festival award–winning films Category:English-language documentary films
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