Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

83 mins | Documentary, War | Oct. 1, 1987

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.

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

83 mins | Documentary, War | Oct. 1, 1987

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers Dear America, GBA
Original title Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Directors Bill Couturié
Writers Richard Dewhurst

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

as Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Tom Berenger

as (voice)

J. Kenneth Campbell

as (voice)

Richard Chaves

as (voice)

Josh Cruze

as (voice)

Willem Dafoe

as Elephant Grass (voice)

Robert De Niro

as Great Sewer (voice)

Brian Dennehy

as (voice)

Kevin Dillon

as Jack (voice)

Matt Dillon

as Mike (voice)

Robert Downey Jr.

as (voice)

Michael J. Fox

as Raymond Griffiths (voice)

Mark Harmon

as (voice)

John Heard

as Johnny Boy (voice)

Judd Nelson

as (voice)

Martin Sheen

as Alan (voice)

Eric Roberts

as (voice)

Sean Penn

as (voice)

Kathleen Turner

as Lynda Van Devanter (voice)

Robin Williams

as (voice)

Harvey Keitel

as Donald Jacques (voice)