''Regret to Inform'' is a 1998 American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an

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for Best Documentary Feature,. After airing on

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' '' POV'', ''Regret to Inform'' won a

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in 2000.60th Annual Peabody Awards
May 2001. The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

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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