Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Addressed to the heart of America.

  • Rated 7.2 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1987
  • 1h 24m
  • Documentary
  • War

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
Starring
Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves

Cast

  • Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn

    Mrs. Stocks (voice)

  • Tom Berenger

    Tom Berenger

    (voice)

  • J. Kenneth Campbell

    J. Kenneth Campbell

    (voice)

  • Richard Chaves

    Richard Chaves

    (voice)

  • Josh Cruze

    Josh Cruze

    (voice)

  • Willem Dafoe

    Willem Dafoe

    Elephant Grass (voice)

  • Robert De Niro

    Robert De Niro

    Great Sewer (voice)

  • Brian Dennehy

    Brian Dennehy

    (voice)

  • Kevin Dillon

    Kevin Dillon

    Jack (voice)

  • Matt Dillon

    Matt Dillon

    Mike (voice)

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