Regret to Inform

{{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
Daniel Reeves
Nancy Schiesari

| editing = Lucy Massie Phenix
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,.{{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}} After airing on PBS' POV, Regret to Inform won a Peabody Award in 2000.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/regret-to-inform 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 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.