Blood Road

Very few documentary can grab your soul like this one does. In the beginning it was simply a bike trip through Ho Chi Ming trail, and a daughter looking for her father's resting place, but when the story goes, it becomes much deeper. In this unforgettable trip you'll see humanity and evil, compassion and love, scar and the healing. You'll see yesterday's enemy becomes today's friend. You see how children are still suffering from the remnants of a senseless war, yet no matter who you are, east or west, rich or poor... we all have the same heart, all care about our families, and all feel the same pain of war.

The photography of this film is extraordinary. Many beautiful scenes of Vietnam and Lao interweave with historic stories, making you realize the connections between the pass and the present. Camera caught a lot of detail of Vietnamese daily lives as well.

The story is simple and straight forward. Don't expect any twists, but due to the good editing I didn't find it boring at all. In fact I couldn't stop watching it once Rebeca started her bike trip. In some points the experience was quite touching.

Highly recommended if you don't hate foreign people, hold no grudges against "commies" and ready for an emotional ride.

I was deeply moved by this documentary film about a daughter who went on soul searching, root finding trip on bike to trace back where her father's F4C fighter jet crashing site along the Ho Chi Ming Trail in 1972. This film is also a great journey for me to finally get the opportunity to witness the atrocity, cruelty, the absurdity and pointlessness of Viet-Nam war.

The daughter, Rebeca, is a tough mountain biker, who went to Viet Nam and Laos along the Trail to pay a tribute to her father. We saw through her own eyes, her heart and her soul to know why she needed to do this and she had proved that journey indeed was necessary for one of her later chapter of life.

Great cinematography, really realistic and beautiful through the production team's camera. A seamless, also perfect editing,

There's only one thing I like to point out here:

When visiting Huyen Nguyen's home, she should take off her hat when she said hello to Huyen's father; she should also take off her hat during the welcome dinner Huyen prepared for her. This is supposed to be the basic politeness she should learn especially when visiting an Asian family. Taking off the hat, showing respect to the elderly and needless to say, taking off hat at the dinner table should be a basic table manners, no matter in the West or in the East.

I really admire Rebecca Rusch determination , courage , love and physical endurance for embarking upon this long and tiring journey along Ho shi min trail to find out about the crash site of her late father in Loas . Had it not been for the love of her father she would not have been able to finish this journey . This should set an example for us that you do need to prove yourself that you can do anything you want if you believe in achieving it notwithstanding the perils and hardship you may run into .

A very toutching documentary. The story of a women ho finds happiness and herself accompanied by another amazing woman

Blood Road is an emotional documentary about a daughter (Rebecca Rusch) remembering her father, a US pilot that died during the Vietnam War, by riding the Ho Chi Minh trail by mountain bike and so to try finding the place where his plane crashed and where he lost his life. She does that in the company of the Vietnamese Huyen Nguyen. The nature shots and the traces of war, thousands of craters, are nicely shot. On their way, they talk about the stupidity of wars and other things. Once being ennemies, at least their forefathers, to now trying to understand what happened in those times. I'm a Belgian so I won't pick a side in any of all those ridiculous wars, but it's obvious the USA started a war again that shouldn't have taken place. The 50 or 60000 Americans that died there are a peanut compared to the million others that died there. Millions of bombs released on Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, killing millions by napalm and Agent Orange, once again the USA used non-conventional weapons and by so killing millions of innocents. That the father died, even though he was just following orders and had issues with it, is just what he deserved. That the daughter loved her father is normal and I applaud her quest. What I applaud even more is the fact she's now helping getting rid of those non-exploded bombs. Bombs that her father dropped. His other daughter apparently didn't understand anything about the issues of her father, because she's herself in the army right now. I don't know how she thinks that her father would be proud of that, but she apparently does think that. Blood Road is an interesting documentary to watch, even if you're not into wars.