Four Hours in My Lai

Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

"Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to the US Army as My Lai (4) and commonly referred to as "Pinksville", on 16th March 1968. This massacre was carried out by "Charlie Company" - members of C Company, 1st battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army. The film-makers interview participants in and survivors of the tragedy, trying to understand how such an atrocity could have happened.

Date of release
1989-05-02
Runtime
1h 6m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Kevin Sim

Interesting facts

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.

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