| Regret to Inform | |
| Director: | Barbara Sonneborn |
| Cinematography: | Emiko Omori Daniel Reeves Nancy Schiesari |
| Editing: | Lucy Massie Phenix Ken Schneider |
| Studio: | Sun Fountain Productions |
| Distributor: | Artistic License Films |
| 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,.[1] After airing on PBS' POV, Regret to Inform won a Peabody Award in 2000.[2]
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.