Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)

Name: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Director: Bill Couturié
Released: 1987-10-01
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze

DocumentaryWar

84 min

"Addressed to the heart of America."

Plot Summary

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.