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 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.

A Story of Healing

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A Story of Healing

1990s short documentary films

1996 films

1996 short films

American short documentary films

Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners

Creative Commons-licensed documentary films

Documentary films about health care

Films shot in Vietnam

American independent films

1996 independent films

1990s English-language films

1990s American films

A Story of Healing