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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987 film by Bill Couturié
Film · TMDB
7.1Real-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.
Released: 1987-10-0184 minDir: Bill CouturiéDocumentary, War
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)
Themes
- vietnam war
- letter
- u.s. soldier
- correspondences
- american soldiers
Gallery (7)
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Categories
1980s collage films1987 American films1987 documentary films1987 English-language films1987 filmsAmerican collage filmsAmerican documentary filmsDocumentary films about the Vietnam WarEnglish-language documentary filmsFilms about letters (message)Films directed by Bill CouturiéPeabody Award–winning broadcasts