Blood Road (film)

Blood Road
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNicholas Schrunk
Written byMark Anders
Produced bySandra Kuhn
Starring
CinematographyRyan Young
Edited byEmad Hashim
Music byKeith Kenniff
Production
company
Red Bull Media House
Release date
  • March 15, 2017 (2017-03-15)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesLaos, Vietnam, Cambodia, United States
LanguagesEnglish, Vietnamese, Lao

Blood Road is a 2017 documentary film directed by Nicholas Schrunk and produced by Red Bull.[1] It stars endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch, Vietnamese cyclist Huyen Nguyen and cartographer Don Duvall. The film chronicles the journey of Rusch traversing over 1,200 miles (1,900 km) on bicycle along the Ho Chi Minh trail to the site where her father, a US Air Force F-4 fighter pilot, was shot down in Laos 40 years earlier. It won numerous best of festival awards and a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2018.[2]

  1. ^ Roston, Tom (2017-06-17). "A daughter chases her father's ghost down the Ho Chi Minh trail". Salon. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. ^ "Blood Road – Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-04-12.