Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Name: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Director: Bill Couturié
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1987-10-01
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 7.121
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze

“Addressed to the heart of America.”

1987

1h 24m

Documentary War

Director: Bill Couturié

Writer: Richard Dewhurst

Overview

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.