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Precious Cargo

"Precious Cargo"
Photo courtesy of Jack & Judy Cornwall

Pros	• Beautifully filmed • Input from parents and officials • Personal with political backdrop
Cons	• Very expensive for the average family

The Bottom Line - This is an excellent choice for educators and professionals dealing with international adoption and multicultural families.

Available from Filmakers Library

Product Description
• Co-Produced by Janet Gardner and Pham Quoc Thai, both with extensive experience in documentaries about Vietnam
• VHS format, 60 minutes
• A PBS/ITVS Presentation

A Homeland Journey
This is the story of eight adoptees who go back to Vietnam in search of their histories and heritage 25 years after Operation Babylift brought them to the U.S. The film includes interviews with "Hanoi Hannah", a Time magazine correspondent who turned out to be a double agent, the pilot of the first Babylift flight that crashed, and others. It was particularly interesting to see the adoptees confront the still-high anti-American (and anti-Babylift) sentiment, deal with their feelings of being American yet not American, and meet the beauty and poverty of Vietnam today.

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Available from Filmakers Library

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