Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1/10/1987 1h 24m 7.1/10

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.

Director

Bill Couturié

Top Billed Cast

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Elephant Grass (voice)

Tom Berenger

Tom Berenger

(voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Richard Chaves

Richard Chaves

(voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell

J. Kenneth Campbell

(voice)

Josh Cruze

Josh Cruze

(voice)

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