Four Hours in My Lai

Four Hours in My Lai

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

May 2, 1989

Runtime

1h 6m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Four Hours in My Lai

Production Companies

Yorkshire Television

Director

Kevin Sim

Description

"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.