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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Oct 1, 1987

1h 24m

★ 7.1

Addressed to the heart of America.

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.

Genres

Documentary

War

Production Companies

Dear America

GBA Media

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Cast

Ellen Burstyn

Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Ellen Burstyn

Tom Berenger

(voice)

Tom Berenger

J. Kenneth Campbell

(voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell

Richard Chaves

(voice)

Richard Chaves

Josh Cruze

(voice)

Josh Cruze

Willem Dafoe

Elephant Grass (voice)

Willem Dafoe

Robert De Niro

Great Sewer (voice)

Robert De Niro

Brian Dennehy

(voice)

Brian Dennehy

Kevin Dillon

Jack (voice)

Kevin Dillon

Matt Dillon

Mike (voice)

Matt Dillon

Robert Downey Jr.

(voice)

Robert Downey Jr.

Michael J. Fox

Raymond Griffiths (voice)

Michael J. Fox

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