# Regret to Inform

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{{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](/source/Barbara_Sonneborn)
| producer       = 
| writer         = Barbara Sonneborn
| cinematography = [Emiko Omori](/source/Emiko_Omori)<br>Daniel Reeves<br>Nancy Schiesari
| editing        = Lucy Massie Phenix<br>Ken Schneider
| studio         = Sun Fountain Productions
| distributor    = [Artistic License Films](/source/Artistic_License_Films)
| released       = {{film date|1998}}
| runtime        = 72 minutes
| country        = United States 
| language       = English
}}

'''''Regret to Inform''''' is a 1998 American [documentary film](/source/documentary_film) directed by [Barbara Sonneborn](/source/Barbara_Sonneborn). It was nominated for an [Academy Award](/source/Academy_Awards) for [Best Documentary Feature](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=2011 |title=NY Times: Regret to Inform |access-date=November 22, 2008}}</ref> After airing on [PBS](/source/PBS)' ''[POV](/source/POV_(TV_series))'', ''Regret to Inform'' won a [Peabody Award](/source/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 [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam)ese 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](/source/POV_(TV_series))''
*{{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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