A Story of Healing (1997)

Name: A Story of Healing
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1997-01-01

28m

Running Time

Plot.

In January, 1997, a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons arrive in Vietnam from the United States for two weeks' of volunteer work. They operate on 110 children who have various birth defects and injuries. They also talk to the film crew about why they've made this trip and what it means to them. We watch them work, and we see the children, their families, and their surroundings in the Mekong Delta. Over the closing credits, Dionne Warwick sings Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love".

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Cast & Crew.

Barron Christian

Narrator

Donna Dewey

Self / Director / Producer

Carol Pasternak

Producer

Donna Dewey

Self

David Emrich

Editor

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1997

Status
Released

Running Time
28m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

woman director

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Wiki.

A Story of Healing is a short documentary film in which Donna Dewey follows a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons led by Larry Nichter, MD, FACS from Interplast in the United States for two weeks of volunteer work in the Mekong delta of Vietnam. The film shows not only how this changes the lives of the 110 patients who undergo surgery, but also the lives of the volunteers themselves. The epilogue, which runs after the credits, follows-up on two patients helped by Interplast, 16 months after their surgery.

In 1998, "A Story of Healing" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). In 2007, it became the first Oscar-winning film to be licensed under a Creative Commons license when it was opened under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License.