| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 81 min.)) : sound, color |
| Summary |
"A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial 'all-American girl', hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in Danang, Vietnam in 1968, she's the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. Fearing for her daughter's safety at the war's end, Hiep's mother sent her to the U.S. on Operation Babylift, a Ford administration plan to relocate orphans and mixed-race children to the U.S. for adoption before they fell victim to a frighteningly uncertain future in Vietnam after the Americans pulled out. Now, as if by a miracle, they are reunited in Danang. But what seems like the cue for a happy ending is anything but. Heidi and her Vietnamese relatives find themselves caught in a confusing clash of cultures and at the mercy of conflicting emotions that will change their lives forever. Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, Daughter from Danang profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run, even within one family."--Kanopy website |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Vicente Franco ; editor, Kim Roberts ; music, B. Quincy Griffin, Héctor Pérez, Van-Anh T. Vo ; consultant, Tran Tuang Nhu ; translators, Tran Tuang Nhu, Cam Nguyen, Ha Viet Quang, Dinh Dung, Bac Hoi Tran |
| Performer |
Featuring Heidi Bub, (born Mai Thi Hiep) and Mai Thi Kim |
| Event |
Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American experience |
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Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2002 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title frames (Kanopy, viewed April 4, 2022) |
| Subject |
Bub, Heidi, 1968-
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Mai, Thi Kim, 1940-
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Racially mixed people.
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Families -- Cross-cultural studies
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Women -- Vietnam
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Vietnamese American women.
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Operation Babylift, 1975.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Social aspects
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Psychological aspects
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Documentary films.
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Racially mixed people.
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Vietnamese American women.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Dolgin, Gail, producer.
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Franco, Vicente, producer.
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Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
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Interfaze Educational Productions.
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