Media
In 1989, the British television station Yorkshire Television broadcast the documentary Four Hours in My Lai as part of the ITV networked series First Tuesday. Using eyewitness statements from both Vietnamese and Americans, the programme revealed new evidence about the massacre.
On March 15, 2008, the BBC broadcast the documentary The My Lai Tapes on Radio 4, and subsequently on the BBC World Service in both English and Vietnamese that used never before heard audio recordings of testimony taken at The Pentagon during the 1969–1970 Peers Inquiry.
On April 26, 2010, the American PBS broadcast a documentary as part of its American Experience series entitled The American Experience: My Lai.
On December 10, 2010, Italian producer Gianni Paolucci released a movie entitled My Lai Four, directed by Paolo Bertola, starring American actor Beau Ballinger as Calley and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Seymour Hersh.
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