Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

Directed by

Kevin Sim

Genre

documentary film, documentary television film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 05m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. It includes interviews with soldiers who were there and coverage of the subsequent trials.

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What happens

Four Hours in My Lai is a 1989 television documentary written and directed by Kevin Sim for Yorkshire Television concerning the 1968 My Lai Massacre by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The film includes interviews with soldiers at the massacre, and the later trials of those involved. The programme first broadcast on ITV as part of Yorkshire Television's First Tuesday documentaries. Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, who created the film, based a book of the same name off the documentary. The book, which is still in print in the United States and the UK, has also been translated and published in Japan. It remains on the reading list around the world of many college and university courses on the Vietnam War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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