Documentary ·War · United States of America · 1987 · 1h 24m

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam poster
Director
Bill Couturié
Cast
Ellen Burstyn as Mrs. Stocks (voice) Tom Berenger as (voice) J. Kenneth Campbell as (voice) Richard Chaves as (voice) Josh Cruze as (voice) Willem Dafoe as Elephant Grass (voice)
Crew
Richard Dewhurst — Writer
Tagline

Addressed to the heart of America.

Synopsis

Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

Mood & Themes
vietnam warletteru.s. soldiercorrespondencesamerican soldiersepistolar
Key Collaborators
Bill Couturié Director Richard Dewhurst Writer
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