Blood Road follows the journey of ultra-endurance mountain bike athlete Rebecca Rusch and her Vietnamese riding partner, Huyen Nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 miles along the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail through the dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Their goal: to reach the site where Rebecca’s father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, was shot down in Laos more than 40 years earlier.
Cinematography
Drone shots over impossible terrain that'll wreck your sense of scale
Direction
Schrunk lets silence and landscape do the heavy lifting
Editing
Seamless weave of archival radio chatter with present-day grind
Director
Nicholas Schrunk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rusch pedaled the entire 1,200 miles while the crew used bikes, motorbikes, and occasionally hacked through jungle on foot to keep up.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was once the most bombed place on earth; Rebecca rides past bomb craters now used as fish ponds and swimming holes by local children.
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