Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1h 24m
DocumentaryWar
7.1

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.

Cast

Ellen Burstyn
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
Tom Berenger
(voice)
J. Kenneth Campbell
(voice)
Richard Chaves
(voice)
Josh Cruze
(voice)
Willem Dafoe
Elephant Grass (voice)
Robert De Niro
Great Sewer (voice)
Brian Dennehy
(voice)
Kevin Dillon
Jack (voice)
Matt Dillon
Mike (voice)
Robert Downey Jr.
(voice)
Michael J. Fox
Raymond Griffiths (voice)
Mark Harmon
(voice)
John Heard
Johnny Boy (voice)
Judd Nelson
(voice)
Martin Sheen
Alan (voice)
Eric Roberts
(voice)
Sean Penn
(voice)
Kathleen Turner
Lynda Van Devanter (voice)
Robin Williams
(voice)
Harvey Keitel
Donald Jacques (voice)

Crew

Bill Couturié
Director
Richard Dewhurst
Writer
John Armstrong
Still Photographer

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